http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; DevForce Community Forum : DevForce 2009 : Nested Properties in ASP.NET GridView or DetailsView Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:17:37 -700 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:44:35 -700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.ideablade.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=831 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_images/IdeaBlade_logo_tm.png http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=831&PID=3054#3054 Author: danielp37
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 10:44am

That makes me very happy and I am super excited to try out the latest bits...

Anxiously awaiting the new bits,

Dan
]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:44:35 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=831&PID=3054#3054 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=831&PID=3053#3053 Author: kimj
Subject: 831
Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 10:39am

In DevForce EF Beta2 we've added support for "injected" types - custom classes you can inject into your model to supply common code and behaviors.   So you just have to wait a few more days ...]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:39:02 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=831&PID=3053#3053 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=831&PID=3043#3043 Author: danielp37
Subject: 831
Posted: 06-Jun-2008 at 3:43pm

Is there a way to get nested properties to work in the GridView and DetailsView BoundField object's (like Contact.Address.FullAddressHTML).  In the previous framework we converting from, all of our entities inherited from a base class that inherited from an object that implemented the ICustomTypeDescriptor interface which returned a custom "PropertyDescriptorCollection" class on the GetProperties method of ICustomTypeDescriptor which enabled us to use Nested Types.

In the help files I see some reference to nested properties and databinding but I'm not sure if or how they can be used in an ASP.NET application.

Also, the ADO.NET EF framework doesn't easily allow one to define a custom base class which all other entities inherit from which common custom code could be put.  I don't see a way to do this in the current beta of DevForce EF, will there be a way in the next beta?  If I could do this, then I would just make this abstract base class implement the ICustomTypeDescriptor class like we current have but without this, I would have to do this on all my entities and I really don't want to have to do that.

Thanks,

Dan
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