Can you create a view over your table that breaks the table into columns?
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Clint Colefax < [email protected]> wrote: > Thank Andrew, > > > > I did try this, but the setter on the EF class is generated code, and I > don’t want to be changing generated code. Pity it’s not a partial member > like some of the other members created by EF. > > Thanks > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Andrew Tobin > *Sent:* Monday, 31 May 2010 3:04 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: Starting out with Entity Framework > > > > 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 > > *Error! Filename not specified.* > > > > >
