Chapter 14 Page 548 Try it Out

andreas5 · August 21st, 2010, 07:56 PM

Hey, i am at the exercise at pages 543-549.

I request NewPhotoAlbum.aspx and go to ManagePhotoAlbum.aspx were i get this error:

Quote:

The member with identity 'Photoalbums' does not exist in the metadata collection.
Parameter name: identity

The first time i tried i got another error, wich i cannot remember much about, something about invalid data and EMD.32. So i copied the PlanetWrox.edmx and the PlanetWrox.mdf files from Source\Chapter14 into my project.

And now im stuck :(

Here is a picture of the error i get when i load ManagePhotoAlbum.aspx after filling out a name:
http://www.home.no/sd7/Error.jpg

Imar · August 22nd, 2010, 04:55 AM

Hi there,

Did yoo create the database as described in the book? That is, do all tables have an Id column that is a primary key *and* and identity? If you do that, you should be able to add them to the diagram and it should just work.

Just copying my dbml files into your project may not work if the database is not the same.

Cheers,

Imar

andreas5 · August 22nd, 2010, 06:48 AM

Quote:

Just copying my dbml files into your project may not work if the database is not the same.

I have copied the actual database (App_Data/PlanetWrox.mdf)
aswell as the ADO.NET Entity Model from App_Code.

They all got Id as their primary key, and all the Id columns have the property "Is Identity" set to "Yes, 1, 1", both in the database and the model ofc.

I have tried to copy only the database aswell and then generate the entity model, but with the exact same result.

Blerh, i might just load chapter 13 files and go through all the try it outs of 14 again, i must have done something wrong somewhere along the way.

Imar · August 22nd, 2010, 06:59 AM

I Googled for the error message you get and found this:

http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-acc...ase-sensitive/

This led me to this:

Quote:

The member with identity 'Photoalbums' does not exist in the metadata collection.
Parameter name: identity

The set should be called PhotoAlbums with a capital A. Does changing the case of the EntitySetName in the EntityDataSource control in NewPhotoAlbum.aspx file fix the problem?

Imar

andreas5 · August 22nd, 2010, 07:12 AM

Not yet :P

Now i get the first error i was talking about. Really strange, because i didnt modify the DataSource manually after i got this error the first time.

Quote:

The argument types 'PlanetWroxModel.PhotoAlbum' and 'Edm.Int32' are incompatible for this operation. Near WHERE predicate, line 6, column 15.

Imar · August 22nd, 2010, 07:20 AM

Can you show the code for the EntityDataSource control in the offending page?

I assume you get this error in ManagePhotoAlbum.aspx? If not, can you be more specific about the steps you're following and the exact locations of the error?

And how does the address for the page (in the browser's address bar) look when you go from NewPhotoAlbum.aspx to ManagePhotoAlbum.aspx?

Imar

andreas5 · August 22nd, 2010, 07:42 AM

Dang! Found it out! :P

I had forgot the ".Id" in Where="it.PhotoAlbum.Id = @photoAlbumId" in the ManagePhotoAlbums.aspx markup.

Thank you for exceptional support!

Imar · August 22nd, 2010, 07:48 AM

That indeed explains the error. it.PhotoAlbum is of type PhotoAlbum while @photoAlbumId contains an Integer. The two are indeed not comparible.

Glad to hear it's working now.

Cheers,

Imar