Question

I have been following the MSDN tutorial as a reference while making an MVC app for Winows Phone 7.1:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh286405(v=vs.92).aspx

In my app, I have an object in a table that implements the INotifyPropertyChanging and INotifyPropertyChanged interfaces implemented and a property like this:

private DateTime lastViewDate;
[Column]
public DateTime LastViewDate
{
    get { return lastViewDate; }
    set
    {
       if (lastViewDate != value)
       {
           NotifyPropertyChanging("LastViewDate");
           lastViewDate = value;
           NotifyPropertyChanged("LastViewDate");
       }
    }
}

When the LastViewDate property gets changed, a MissingMethodException gets thrown when NotifyPropertyChanging gets called even though the property is obviously there. So what am I doing wrong?
(I’m a noob at wp7 programming so it might be obvious, just not to me)

EDIT: more info

Here is the interface method with some added calls to examine the methods:

    // Used to notify that a property is about to change
    private void NotifyPropertyChanging(string propertyName)
    {
        var type = this.GetType();
        var method = type.GetMethod(propertyName); // null
        var getMethod = type.GetMethod("get_" + propertyName); // works
        var setMethod = type.GetMethod("set_" + propertyName); // works
        var methods = type.GetMethods(); // set_LastViewDate is in the method list
        //
        if (PropertyChanging != null)
        {
            PropertyChanging(this, new PropertyChangingEventArgs(propertyName));
        }
    }

Changing the call to NotifyPropertyChanging(“set_LastViewDate”); still gives the same exception. (and ‘method’ gets null in the debug type checking)

EDIT:

Stack trace:

System.MissingMethodException was unhandled
Message=MissingMethodException
StackTrace:
   at System.Activator.InternalCreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type)
   at System.Data.Linq.WorkAround.ActivationHelper.CreateInstance(Type type)
   at System.Data.Linq.ChangeTracker.StandardChangeTracker.StandardTrackedObject.CreateDataCopy(Object instance)
   at System.Data.Linq.ChangeTracker.StandardChangeTracker.StandardTrackedObject.StartTracking()
   at System.Data.Linq.ChangeTracker.StandardChangeTracker.OnPropertyChanging(Object sender, PropertyChangingEventArgs args)
   at WindowsPhonePlaces.Photo.NotifyPropertyChanging(String propertyName)
   at WindowsPhonePlaces.Photo.set_LastViewDate(DateTime value)
   at WindowsPhonePlaces.Photo.ResetViewDate()
   at WindowsPhonePlaces.PhotoViewerPage.OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
   at Microsoft.Phone.Controls.PhoneApplicationPage.InternalOnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Navigation.NavigationService.RaiseNavigated(Object content, Uri uri, NavigationMode mode, Boolean isNavigationInitiator, PhoneApplicationPage existingContentPage, PhoneApplicationPage newContentPage)
   at System.Windows.Navigation.NavigationService.CompleteNavigation(DependencyObject content, NavigationMode mode)
   at System.Windows.Navigation.NavigationService.ContentLoader_BeginLoad_Callback(IAsyncResult result)
   at System.Windows.Navigation.PageResourceContentLoader.BeginLoad_OnUIThread(AsyncCallback userCallback, PageResourceContentLoaderAsyncResult result)
   at System.Windows.Navigation.PageResourceContentLoader.<>c__DisplayClass4.<BeginLoad>b__0(Object args)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.InternalInvoke(RuntimeMethodInfo rtmi, Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object parameters, CultureInfo culture, Boolean isBinderDefault, Assembly caller, Boolean verifyAccess, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.InternalInvoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
   at System.Reflection.MethodBase.Invoke(Object obj, Object[] parameters)
   at System.Delegate.DynamicInvokeOne(Object[] args)
   at System.MulticastDelegate.DynamicInvokeImpl(Object[] args)
   at System.Delegate.DynamicInvoke(Object[] args)
   at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.Invoke()
   at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.Dispatch(DispatcherPriority priority)
   at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.OnInvoke(Object context)
   at System.Windows.Hosting.CallbackCookie.Invoke(Object[] args)
   at System.Windows.Hosting.DelegateWrapper.InternalInvoke(Object[] args)
   at System.Windows.RuntimeHost.ManagedHost.InvokeDelegate(IntPtr pHandle, Int32 nParamCount, ScriptParam[] pParams, ScriptParam& pResult)

Answer 1

I’m putting the solution as a separate answer here to make it clear:

The problem was that I made the constructor private and used a static method to create my db objects. This doesn’t work with LINQ–you need a parameterless, public constructor.

Thanks to @Metro Smurf and @Rajeev Nair for figuring it out.