It depends on how you planned on accessing this metadata for the column but you can also try one of the two schema additions:
Add the msdata:Caption="The customer's unique identification number" which sets the caption propety on the datacolumn. Add one or many msprop:MyDescription="The customer's unique identification number" to add items to the ExtendedProperties (PropertiesCollection that inherits from Hashtable) of the datacolumn. Chad On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:13:24 +0100, Zecharya, Bar (FIRM) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone have an idea how I could add extra column information, like a >second "name" property, to a typed dataset? > >I'm working on a mechanism to log changes made to a dataset, by looping >through each table, calling GetChanges(), and then looping through each >column and logging when a change has been made to that column's data. >However, I would like to provide a more user-friendly name for the columns >(a string would suffice). > >Given a column description like: ><xs:element name="id_customer" type="xs:int" /> > >I would like to change it to (for example) ><xs:element name="id_customer" friendlyname="The customer's unique >identification number" type="xs:int" /> > >But I get a compiler error: "The 'friendlyname' attribute is not supported >in this context." > >Any ideas (both localizable and non-localizable welcome)? > >Bar > > >Bar Zecharya >Marine Resources Division (FIRM) >Fishery Department >Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations >Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome Italy > >=================================== >This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŪ http://www.develop.com >Some .NET courses you may be interested in: > >NEW! Guerrilla ASP.NET, 17 May 2004, in Los Angeles >http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnetls > >View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŪ http://www.develop.com Some .NET courses you may be interested in: NEW! Guerrilla ASP.NET, 17 May 2004, in Los Angeles http://www.develop.com/courses/gaspdotnetls View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
