Silverlight TV 52: Entity Level Validation, Defining MetaData and Nested ComboBoxes with WCF RIA Services

Hi good Video i have a question about DomainService i am working on a project using RIA and i have almost 150 entities i created a Domain Service for 95 entities now i want to pull rest of the entities from EF model but i did'nt find any method to update the Domain Service only one option is there to recreate the DomainService i had alot of server side code inside my DomainService so would you please tell me any solution to update DomainService.

@Atif Shahzad: Try creating a completely new domain service, manually copy code from existing service into new service to consolidate the code. Unfortunately seems to be the only way at the moment

Awesome video as usual John.  These vides are great way to chip away at the mysteries that are inherent in any new framework.  I have developed a full navigation based RIA service solution but I am still nervous whether I have implemented it the best way.  For instance in my application when I go from page to I instantiate the domain context and load my data to populate the UI.  Although the application works, I worry whether I am using the best practices.  It feels like I should use one domain context at application level which is shared between all the pages and that when I navigate to a page if the data is already loaded and not change that I would not load it again.  I would love to see a video that shows some best practices on sharing application wide data between pages, avoiding unnecessary sever loads and better explains things like ApplicationLifetimeObjects.  For instance, I don't know whether it is a good idea to add my domain context to the ApplicationLifetimeObjects the same way that the webcontext is added to it by default.
Sincerely,
Jason

One item comes to mind when you talk about forgetting to set/rest customErrors mode=On/Off is using Web.Release.Config to replace the element for the target "Release" when building for production.  

another great vid guys ty!

As a suggestion in regards to more metadata validation would be:

1) How to use Resource files to hold the validation strings.

2) How to make the code generation actually work across multiple projects in the same solution when using those Resource Files.

Thanks!

Thanks for the video John ... I implemented what I saw here but I've got a problem! ...
Description:
I have a button to save the changes of the context. .. Context.SaveChanges()but anytime I press it I have an error because the entity is still in Edit Mode ... there are some samples on the net where you can close the Edit Mode of entities like this

Modules.ToList().ForEach(uur => (uur as IEditableObject).EndEdit());

But then I SaveChanges and get back an Exception that explains that validation failed at the server ... so validation is making its work in the client and server HOWEVER!!!
I am trying also this before the call to Context.SaveChanges()

if
(Modules.Where((pcm) => pcm.HasValidationErrors == true).Count() > 0) { return; }
This is for checking if there is any Entity with an error... the thing here is THAT NONE ENTITY returns from this linq ... WHAT IS WORSE ... I know exactly the number of Entity with the error into my Modules list ... I call directly Modules[6].HasValidationErrors and the result is alwas FALSE ... EVEN WORSE ... Calling Modules[6].MyField shows me that the value inserted into MyField for the given Module is NOT THE CORRECT ONE but the Entity is telling me that it has no Validation Errors...
Is there a way of checking for ValidationErrors in my ViewModel before calling Context.SaveChanges? ...
THANKS!

I've found edit sessions are typically only left open by the DataForm. In this post (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kylemc/archive/2010/10/28/improved-binding-support-in-entityset-and-entitycollection.aspx) I show how to track the DataForm state and close the session correctly. Additionally, if you close using CommitEdit, it will do a validation pass and you will be able to correctly detect errors before submitting.

@jopapa:Thankx Kyle McClellan for replay and hopefully we shall have this feature in vnext, but for now iam doing this manually.

@Kyle McClellan:
Thank you very much ... ~!!!

I do not know what to do anymore, this is getting me crazy... all i get when an error like he cause on 03:36 happens, its a blank screen, my SL app dissapear. I can get the error on fiddler, but it would be better to see on screen. I have used the business template and my RIA services are on a separated project... all works fine, but this problem is getting me crazy. If I use IE9, I get a windows popup asking me if i want to debug the error on a new instace of vs2010!... RIA Services is amazing, but problems like this are very frustrating :/ (and sorry for my bad english)

Do you know what could be reason for problem to watch or downloaf this video. I have to wait every few seconds for buffeing (I think). It is very frustrating and I am interested if there is any problem with some WMP or like this options.(I am able to watch other videos - on Facebook or any other source smoothly)

Hi John,
Can you cover how Entity level validation is acheived in server side code. I am inserting object as new entities into the db but would like to validate each field prior to insertion on the server (object sent via WCF so no client side validation is done prior).

@Atif Shahzad:Make Partial Class-es for both Metadata and Code, and After that before making changes Exlude those partial class-es from project, add more entity, rebuild, generate domain service, include your partial class-es, and that's it, After that what ever you change put in your partial class-es, and you are not going to lose any of your code, just repet all of these when you had to add more entity!!! Hope this helps!!!