Rather simple question regarding entity framework and how to consume the objectcontext.
In a asp.net webform application I am implementing most of data getters in a data class and trying to determine if its better (in a generic sense of better) to have a private context for the entire class or declare a context in each of the methods.
Example 1:
public class Data
{
private MyEntity context = new MyEntity();
public Customer GetCustomer()
{
return context.Customer.Single();
}
public Order GetOrder()
{
return context.Order.Single();
}
}
Or Example 2:
public class Data
{
public Customer GetCustomer()
{
using (MyEntity ctx = new MyEntity())
{
return context.Customer.Single();
}
}
public Order GetOrder()
{
using (MyEntity ctx = new MyEntity())
{
return context.Order.Single();
}
}
}
Personally im a big fan of using a shared context across your whole post back, however neither of these scenarios really achieve this. My personal preference is to use a dependency injection container such as ninject to manage the lifecycle of your EF context. This means that you can make your whole postback transactional.
in terms of implementation I would go for soemthing like the following:
public class Data
{
private MyContext _context;
public Data(MyContext context)
{
_context = context;
}
public Customer GetCustomer()
{
return _context.Customer.Single();
}
public Order GetOrder()
{
return _context.Order.Single();
}
}
with a binding similar to:
Bind<MyContext>().ToSelf().InRequestScope();