BulkChanges Method

Used to group massive changes to entities and to allow manual explicit changes of entity states.

Syntax

Visual Basic
C#

'Declaration
 
Public Sub BulkChanges( _
   ByVal makeChanges As System.Action _
)

public void BulkChanges( 
   System.Action makeChanges
)

Parameters

makeChanges: A delegate that makes changes in entities.

Remarks

Internal state of the client-side cache and all existing client views based on the cache are kept unchanged, aren't updated while the given makeChanges is executed. After the delegate completes its execution (having modified multiple entities), the client-side cache internal state is restored and client views are updated (maintained) to reflect the changes made in entities during the delegate's execution.

There are two main scenarios where you should consider calling this method:

Using this method when you make a lot of changes to entities can improve performance because the change processing is deferred, occurs only once after all changes are done instead of every time on each change. Depending on the amount of changes, the speedup can be considerable.
You must use this method when you need to make changes to entity states by calling any of the following methods:
- System.Data.Objects.ObjectStateEntry.ChangeState/SetModified/AcceptChanges,
- System.Data.Objects.ObjectContext.AcceptAllChanges,
- System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.DomainContext.RejectChanges,
- System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.Entity.AcceptChanges/RejectChanges,
- System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.EntitySet.AcceptChanges/RejectChanges,
- System.Windows.Controls.DomainDataSource.RejectChanges.

Calling these methods without wrapping them with BulkChanges can corrupt the client-side cache.

Example

var scope = clientCache.CreateScope();
clientCache.BulkChanges(delegate {
    foreach(var detail in scope.GetItems<Order_Details>)
        detail.Discount *= 2;
});

Reference

ClientCacheBase Class
ClientCacheBase Members