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Beware of entity tracking
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- Mike Barram
Entity tracking is clever and manages to keep a cache of recently used entities (and lists of entities) and, if it doesn’t see a change to an entity, it will return the cached version without going to the database – that’s what caching is after all. The problem is that ALL changes to the database MUST be made by the same project using .netTiers methods. If you’re developing an application and change data directly in the database then .netTiers won’t spot that. Pretty obvious really but do remember whether you haveenableEntityTracking="true" orenableEntityTracking="false"
in the SqlNetTiersProvider bit of your web.config