Context API - Overview

This article is relevant to entity models that utilize the deprecated Visual Studio integration of Telerik Data Access. The current documentation of the Data Access framework is available here.

The OpenAccessContext class provides facilities for querying and working with data as objects.

In this section:

• Creating an OpenAccessContext
• Performing CRUD Operations
• Handling Transactions
• Managing Concurrency
• Executing Commands and StoredProcedures
• Defining FetchPlans
• Tracking Context Changes
• Attaching and Detaching Objects
• Explicitly Marking an Object as Changed
• Getting Changes that Will be Performed During the Next Commit
• Working with Cache
• Working with Data Definition Language (DDL)
• Obtaining an Object Key
• Obtaining an OpenAccessContext From an Object
• Obtaining the MetadataContainer Used by the Context
• Disposing the OpenAccessContext
• Accessing Original Values After Changes
• Updating the Context Metadata
• Retrieving Members Based On Their State
• Artificial Data API
• Working with Streams
• Getting an Object State
• Backend Configuration
  • Logging Configuration
  • SecondLevelCache Configuration
  • ConnectionPool Configuration
  • HighLowKeyGenerator Configuration
  • Runtime Configuration
  • BackendInformation Configuration
• ID Generators
  • Working with HighLow Keygen API
  • Creating Client Side Sequential GUIDs
• Bulk Operations
  • Performing Bulk Delete
  • Performing Bulk Update
• Context Options
  • Managing Isolation Level