Question

The following simplified code doesn’t work (because it sets the retrieved object reference to the parameter), but it shows what I want to do

 public bool updateEvent(clubEvent newEvent)     {         TNightCon tCon = new TNightCon();         clubEvent cEv = (from cEvent in tCon.clubEvents                          where cEvent.EventID == newEvent.EventID                          select cEvent).First();          // Won't work, but do I have to set all the fields manually?         cEv = newEvent;         tCon.SubmitChanges();         return true;     } 

Answer 1

You don’t need to retrieve the current object to do what you need to do. If the Ids are the same, all you need to do is attach the new object to your context. The trick then becomes getting Linq2SQL to treat the object as ‘dirty’. Timothy Khouri has a blog post that details a useful technique using the Refresh method on the context. Here’s what it’d look like.

 public bool updateEvent(clubEvent newEvent)     {         tCon.clubEvents.Attach(newEvent);         tCon.Refresh(RefreshMode.KeepCurrentValues, settings)         tCon.SubmitChanges();         return true;     }