You could map the string for the months to a string in your class, and on the setter, do the logic to put it into the list, and on the getter make it back into the correctly ordered string?
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:02 PM, James Chapman-Smith <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Clint, > > > > You can easily use partial classes to add the list of months member to the > generated classes from entity framework. Will that do what you need? > > > > Cheers. > > > > James. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Clint Colefax > *Sent:* Monday, 31 May 2010 12:00 > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Starting out with Entity Framework > > > > Hi all, > > > > I’m starting out with Entity Framework (.NET 3.5) and am curious if it can > handle the following scenario and how to go about implementing it. > > > > Say I have single table like so > > > > TableName: Languages > > Columns: Name > > TranslatedMonths > > > > An example row would be > > Name=English > > TranslatedMonths =“Jan, Feb, Mar….” > > > > In the entities layer, I want this represented as to types of classes, > > > > ClassName: Languages > > Memebers: Name > > List(Of Months) > > > > Can I do this with EF? Where do I start. I’ve played a bit with this > scenario but can’t seem to get it to where I want. I’ve done a bit with > Partial Classes for this so far, but I’m just not happy with trying to keep > the String property created by ef in sync with my custom added list > property. For this I’d like to remove the property from the entity in the > designer, but not sure how then to have that database value loaded so I can > parse it out into my list. > > > > Thanks > > [image: Clint_C] > > >
