Sounds good to me, sometimes we fight and resist too much. 😜

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On 05/03/2012, at 13:27, David Burela <david.bur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As much as I was trying to avoid it, I ended up just setting dummy values on 
> the client side, which the domain service overwrites.
> 
> On 2 March 2012 12:37, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> wrote:
> Try  [DisplayFormat(ConvertEmptyStringToNull = false)] 
> 
> This post isn't exactly your scenario but it could be related to the strings 
> you have (nvarchar) and they might be defaulting to null?
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3129080/server-side-validation-of-a-required-string-property-in-mvc2-entity-framework-4
>  
> 
> worth a try anyway :)
> 
> the other way is to just set it on the client and then ignore what the client 
> provides. 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:18 AM, David Burela <david.bur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've got a weird problem.
> >
> > There are tables in a database with these additional columns "CreatedById", 
> > "ModifiedById". (They are nvarchar, not null)
> > There is then an entity framework model for this (again, strings, not null).
> > RIA services is used to share the entities with the client.
> >
> > The problem is in Silverlight side. If I create a new Product class, 
> > display it in a Dataform to allow the user to edit price, etc. I can't 
> > submit product to the domain service because validation fails "CreatedById 
> > can not be null". It makes no sense to set those values on the client side 
> > as they could spoof those files. I have logic on the domain service side 
> > that looks at the current authenticated user and automatically sets those 
> > fields.
> >
> > But I can't submit them because validation keeps failing on those 2 fields.
> > Is there a [NotRequired] property I could put on the domain service 
> > metadata file?
> > -David Burela
> >
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