Quick Start

This page provides practical, end-to-end walkthroughs for the most common POCO DataSet workflows: loading data (SQL Data Adapter or EF Core), editing it on the client, sending a changeset to the backend, and merging the response back into the UI-bound dataset.

Workflows

SQL Data Adapter
Use the SQL Data Adapter when your backend is SQL Server and you want to load schema and data into POCO DataSet tables, then generate changesets for save operations.

EF Core Integration – Recommended Lifecycle
Use this workflow when Entity Framework Core is your persistence model and you want to edit data in the UI using a neutral, metadata-driven POCO DataSet.

Refreshing UI data without losing edits
Many applications need to refresh data from the server while the user is editing. In POCO DataSet, this is handled by the IObservableDataSet.DoRefreshMergePreservingLocalChanges method.

Replace / reload UI data
For new searches or when you intentionally discard local edits, use Reload / Replace strategy. In POCO DataSet, this is handled by the IObservableDataSet.DoReplaceMerge method. This clears current rows and replaces them with refreshed rows, ending in a clean baseline.

 

Table of Content POCO DataSet

 

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