EF4/WCF SaveChanges() Best Practice

Question

This is how we implement a generic Save() service in WCF for our EF entities. A TT does the work for us. Even though we don't have any problems with it, I hate to assume this is the best approach (even if it might be). You guys seem pretty darn bright and helpful, so I thought I would pose the question:

Is there a better way?

[OperationContract]
public User SaveUser(User entity)
{
    bool _IsDeleted = false;
    using (DatabaseEntities _Context = new DatabaseEntities())
    {
        switch (entity.ChangeTracker.State)
        {
            case ObjectState.Deleted:
                //delete
                _IsDeleted = true;
                _Context.Users.Attach(entity);
                _Context.DeleteObject(entity);
                break;
            default:
                //everything else
                _Context.Users.ApplyChanges(entity);
                break;
        }
        // now, to the database
        try
        {
            // try to save changes, which may cause a conflict.
            _Context.SaveChanges(System.Data.Objects.SaveOptions.None);
        }
        catch (System.Data.OptimisticConcurrencyException)
        {
            // resolve the concurrency conflict by refreshing 
            _Context.Refresh(System.Data.Objects.RefreshMode.ClientWins, entity);
            // Save changes.
            _Context.SaveChanges();
        }
    }
    // return
    if (_IsDeleted)
        return null;
    entity.AcceptChanges();
    return entity;
}

Answer 1

Why are you doing this with Self tracking entities? What was wrong with this:

[OperationContract]
public User SaveUser(User entity)
{
    bool isDeleted = false;
    using (DatabaseEntities context = new DatabaseEntities())
    {
        isDeleted = entity.ChangeTracker.State == ObjectState.Deleted;
        context.Users.ApplyChanges(entity); // It deletes entities marked for deletion as well

        try
        {
            // no need to postpone accepting changes, they will not be accepted if exception happens
            context.SaveChanges(); 
        }
        catch (System.Data.OptimisticConcurrencyException)
        {
            context.Refresh(System.Data.Objects.RefreshMode.ClientWins, entity);
            context.SaveChanges();
        }
    }

    return isDeleted ? null : entity;
}