Many thanks! :)

>The context is a stateful container. Until your SaveChanges() takes the state will not change.
>
>If you want to clear the validation errors you need to recreate the context as there's no built-in way to reset the context (or CancelChanges()).
>
>In my business object wrapper I have a AbortChanges() method which essentially does this:
>
>

>        /// <summary>
>        /// Cancel Changes on the current connected context
>        /// </summary>
>        public virtual void AbortChanges()
>        {
>            // Create a new context instance from scratch
>            Context.Dispose();  // close the old context
>
>            // Create a new Context
>            CreateContext();
>        }
>

>
>which then internally recreates the context.
>
>You can see the code for this here:
>
>https://github.com/RickStrahl/WestwindToolkit/blob/master/Westwind.Data/EfCodeFirst/EfCodeFirstBusinessBase.cs
>
>Context creation after the initial creation is reasonably fast so it's acceptable to recreate the context.
>
>+++ Rick ---
>
>
>>Consider this method:
>>
>>It seems that e.ValidationErrors does not get reset. After multiple catches the previous ierrors remain in the collection.
>>
>>
>>

>>        public static void savechanges(d060Entities context,out bool success,out string message)
>>        {
>>            var s = new StringBuilder();
>>            s.Clear();
>>            success = true;
>>            message = "";
>>            try
>>            {
>>                context.SaveChanges();
>>            }
>>            catch (DbEntityValidationException ex)
>>            {
>>                s.AppendLine("DbEntityValidationException.");
>>                s.AppendFormat("Errors : {0}", ex.EntityValidationErrors.Count());
>>                s.AppendLine();
>>                foreach (var e in ex.EntityValidationErrors)
>>                {
>>                    foreach (var e1 in e.ValidationErrors)
>>                    {
>>                        s.AppendFormat(e1.ErrorMessage);
>>                        s.AppendLine();
>>                    }
>>                }
>>                success = false;
>>                }
>>            catch (Exception ex)
>>            {
>>                s.AppendFormat("error : {0}", ex.ToString());
>>                success = false;
>>            }
>>            message = s.ToString();
>>        }
>>