Question

I recently noticed there is two different ways to delete an entry from the DB in Entity Framework.

I had originally implemented it using the following

db.Courses.Remove(course);

But then I found out that you can also do the following

db.Entry(course).State = EntityState.Deleted;

Is there any difference between the two?
The only reason I can think for me to switch to the latter would be to be more consistent in my implementation since that’s the approach I use to edit entries.

Any thoughts ?

Answer 1

Both methods mark the entity as deleted, so the next db.SaveChanges(); removes them from the database and the context.

This article describes all ways you can add, modify and delete entities.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg696174(v=vs.103).aspx