Hi James,
Yes it does, that is what I have done, and most of the time this would work fine. It's just a little messy keeping the string and the list in sync. I'm probably going to break this up into 2 classes, and while these entities are being created, we use a lot of the build in methods on the list class, but then it's saved into a varchar value in the table. As I've not used entity framework before, I was trying to keep a single set of entities, but I'm starting to think it best to split these up. Thanks for your feedback. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Chapman-Smith Sent: Monday, 31 May 2010 2:03 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Starting out with Entity Framework 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
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