Question

I have an asp.net application with a c# code-behind, connected to an SQL db with linq-to-entities… When I attempt to ‘SaveChanges()’ on the following code I get an exception (listed below). Any thoughts on what is up?

private void setNewRide(long newRideID, int carNum)
        {
            handleCompletedRide(carNum);

            using (myEntities = new RamRideOpsEntities())
            {
                Vehicle assignedCar = myEntities.Vehicles.FirstOrDefault(car => car.CarNum == carNum);
                Ride newRide = myEntities.Rides.FirstOrDefault(ride => ride.identity == newRideID);

                if (assignedCar != null && newRide != null)
                {
                    vs_CurrentRideId = newRide.identity; //Save current ride to ViewState
                    vs_CarStatus = assignedCar.Status; //Save old status to ViewState

                    assignedCar.Status = "EnRoute";
                    assignedCar.CurrPassengers = newRide.NumPatrons;
                    assignedCar.StartAdd = newRide.PickupAddress;
                    assignedCar.EndAdd = newRide.DropoffAddress;
                    assignedCar.CurrentAdd = newRide.DropoffAddress;

                    assignedCar.Rides.Add(newRide);

                    newRide.TimeDispatched = DateTime.Now;
                    newRide.WaitTime = (((DateTime)newRide.TimeDispatched) - ((DateTime)newRide.TimeOfCall));
                    newRide.AssignedCar = carNum;
                    newRide.Status = "EnRoute";

                    myEntities.SaveChanges(); //EXCEPTION HERE!
                    SelectCarUP.DataBind();
                    SelectCarUP.Update();                    
                }
            }
        }

THE EXCEPTION:

The UPDATE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint
\”FK_Rides_Vehicles\”. The conflict occurred in database
\”CWIS29RamRideOps\”, table \”dbo.Vehicles\”, column
‘Identity’.\r\nThe statement has been terminated.

THE DB:

Answer 1

This line:

assignedCar.Rides.Add(newRide);

is translated as SQL-INSERT – while you already have a record with the same ID. Decide what you want to do: insert a new ride (in which case you should NULLify the id of newRide), or update it (in which case you should just comment that line out; changes will be saved).