Making Do with Absent Foreign Keys: Listing 3.

The new version of InsertOrUpdate.

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(Leaf leaf)
{
  if (ModelState.IsValid)
  {
    var _treeId = Request.Form["TreeId"] as int;
    leafRepository.InsertOrUpdate(leaf, _treeId);
    leafRepository.Save();
    return RedirectToAction("Index", new { treeId = _treeId });
  }
  else
  {
    return View();
  }
}

About the Author

Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find her presenting on data access and otherMicrosoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. She blogs at thedatafarm.com/blog and is the author of "Programming Entity Framework" (2010) and "Programming Entity Framework: Code First" (2011), both from O'Reilly Media. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/julielerman.

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