Question

Take the following EF based code:

var newItem = context.Items.CreateObject();
newItem.ID = Guid.NewGuid();
newItem.Name = "Some text";
context.Items.AddObject(newItem);
int count = context.Items.Count();

What would cause the count to return zero in this circumstance?

Answer 1

You forgot

context.SaveChanges();

It should look like this

var newItem = context.Items.CreateObject();
newItem.ID = Guid.NewGuid();
newItem.Name = "Some text";
context.Items.AddObject(newItem);
context.SaveChanges();   
int count = context.Items.Count();