Delete selected entity object from gridview,where foreign key table block it

Question

These are the tables Employee , EmployeeTicket , Ticket in my SQL Server database:

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And this is how its seen in my Entity Framework model

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As you see my foreign key table becomes a navigation property and it's OK I found a way to use it.

// Use a LINQ expression to find the selected product.
int selectedID = (int)GridViewTicketHistory.SelectedDataKey.Value;
var matches = from p in entities.Employees
              where p.ID == selectedID
              select p;

// Execute the query and return the entity object.
Employee emp = matches.Single();

// Delete the entity object.
entities.Employees.DeleteObject(emp);

// Commit the changes back to the database.
entities.SaveChanges();

editCustomerTicket();

The problem is I get an error:

The DELETE statement is in conflict with the constraint REFERENCE "FK_EmployeeTicket_Employee". The conflict occurred in the table "dbo.EmployeeTicket", column 'ID' database "TrackUser"

Which means I can't delete ID from Employee and I think I should first delete the ID in foreign key table. How can I achieve that? Or is there any simple change I can do to get rid of this error?

Answer 1

u can try to make EmployeeTicket ID as allows NULL depends on how set the colums properties

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