When working with EF Database First (don’t ask) and mapping stored procedures you may run into this issue. Julie Lerman has written a great story on how to do the mappings and has some code to download to inspect how to set up the mappings for insert, update, and delete appropriately for use with stored procedures (http://msdn.microsoft.com/... You may have searched everywhere else and have not been able to find a satisfactory answer. In some cases your model has a circular ......