I'm doing the following:

PageEntity page = PageManager.FetchWithScope(pageId); if(page.Scope.Fields.State == EntityState.Fetched) return page.Scope.Text; return string.Empty;

I get the above error message, " object reference........". Now I know that for this given pageId the ScopeEntity IS Not created in the db, but that's what I thought I was checking for. I would like to test for a whether scope is valid or not. Just to mention, the page entity is valid.

No the entity reference is null, page.Scope is null. (you're using adapter am I correct?) as it isn't fetched.

Correct, I'm using adapter. Correct, the reference is null, not sure how to test for that. Yes, then entity is not fetched because the entity is not in the db which I believe is my problem. So I don't think this is the correct way to do this.

[Edit] Ok, simple solution, just add a check to see if page.Scope is null which worked.

PageEntity page = PageManager.FetchWithScope(pageId); if(page.Scope == null) return string.Empty; else { // if(page.Scope.Fields.State == EntityState.Fetched) return page.Scope.Text; }

erichar11 wrote:

Correct, I'm using adapter. Correct, the reference is null, not sure how to test for that. Yes, then entity is not fetched because the entity is not in the db which I believe is my problem. So I don't think this is the correct way to do this.

do:

PageEntity page = PageManager.FetchWithScope(pageId); if((page.Scope==null)||(page.Scope.Fields.State != EntityState.Fetched)) { return string.Empty; } return page.Scope.Text;

the first clause is then already true and .NET stops evaluating the whole if clause, as the rest won't change the outcome of the expression.

(edit) too late...

thanks, someone wrote in a thread here about placing a problem on this forum and right after he submitted it to the forum, he realized what the solution to his problem was. Geez, how true is that. This forum is magic.

Now only if I can get subversion to commit my changes , I'd go to sleep happy.

[Edit] Finally got subversion to commit my changes, but it took a couple of hours to figure out why. My fault actually as due to the issue I had with llblgen regarding an entity not showing up correctly in the designer, I deleted some directories so I could regenerate fresh. Well those directories had _svn directories which were also deleted. The root of the problem. Fixed and all is well.