private bool NewSecurityGroup(string itemID) { SecurityGroup newItem = new SecurityGroup(); //all new records will be give a negative int autoid... //when they are updated then sql will generate one for them overiding this set value... //it will allow us to give uniqueness to the tempory new records... //Before they are updated to the entity and given an autoid... //we use a negative number and keep subtracting by 1 for each new item added... //This will allow it to alwasy be unique and never interfere with SQL's positive autoid... _newSecurityGroupAutoId = _newSecurityGroupAutoId - 1; newItem.AutoID = _newSecurityGroupAutoId; newItem.SecurityGroupID = itemID; newItem.CompanyID = ClientSessionSingleton.Instance.CompanyID; newItem.IsValid = 1; newItem.NotValidMessage = "New Record Key Field/s Are Required."; SecurityGroupList.Add(newItem); _serviceAgent.AddToSecurityGroupRepository(newItem); SelectedSecurityGroup = SecurityGroupList.LastOrDefault(); AllowEdit = true; Dirty = false; return(true); }