I have a WPF / entity framework application, my model have student , class entities there is a many to many association/relation between student and class (student can have many classes and class have many students )
student [ Id ,Name , Classes(Navigation property) ] classes [ Id ,Title, Students(Navigation property ]
in this case the entity framework don't show the join/relation table.
i have a 2 DataGirds as master details, student grid is the master and classes is details
<StackPanel DataContext="{StaticResource studentViewSource}" Orientation="Horizontal"><DataGrid x:Name="StudentsDataGrid" AutoGenerateColumns="False" EnableRowVirtualization="True" ItemsSource="{Binding}" RowDetailsVisibilityMode="VisibleWhenSelected"><DataGrid.Columns><DataGridTextColumn x:Name="idColumn" Binding="{Binding Id}" Header="Id" Width="SizeToHeader" /><DataGridTextColumn x:Name="nameColumn" Binding="{Binding Name}" Header="Student Name" Width="*" /><DataGridTextColumn x:Name="phonesColumn" Binding="{Binding Phones}" Header="Phones" Width="200" /></DataGrid.Columns></DataGrid><DataGrid x:Name="StudentclassesDataGrid" AutoGenerateColumns="False" EnableRowVirtualization="True" Height="200" ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource studentClassesViewSource}}" RowDetailsVisibilityMode="VisibleWhenSelected"><DataGrid.Columns><DataGridComboBoxColumn Header="Class Name From Combo" Width="*" ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource classViewSource}}" DisplayMemberPath="Name" SelectedItemBinding="{Binding Classes}" /></DataGrid.Columns></DataGrid><Button Content="Save" Click="Button_Click" /></StackPanel>
I have 2 problems in the classes datagird :
the DataGridComboBoxColumn don't display the name of the class the student registered in?
When I register a student with new class (creating new row in the DB and selecting a class name ) when I try to save the changes to DB I got error message :Validation failed for one or more entities. See 'EntityValidationErrors' property for more details