DevForce Community Forum : Enums in Entities http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; DevForce Community Forum : DevForce 2010 : Enums in Entities Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:07:55 -700 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:32:28 -700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.ideablade.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2803 DevForce Community Forum http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_images/IdeaBlade_logo_tm.png http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ Enums in Entities : Thanks for the vote and feedback... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2803&PID=11177#11177 Author: DenisK
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Posted: 05-Jul-2011 at 11:32am

Thanks for the vote and feedback Stephen. I'll let the development team know about this.]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:32:28 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2803&PID=11177#11177 Enums in Entities : Originally posted by DenisKDevForce... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2803&PID=11152#11152 Author: stephenmcd1
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Posted: 30-Jun-2011 at 6:04pm

Originally posted by DenisK

DevForce supported enums back in Classic days but we haven't carried the feature forward and haven't seen enough demand to implement it again.

Consider this a vote for Dev Force to support enums.  We'd like to be using enums in many places in our model but the current limitations you mentioned make it too much effort.  But if EF supports this natively at some point, it would be great if Dev Force could too!

-Stephen
]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:04:33 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2803&PID=11152#11152 Enums in Entities : EF June 2011 CTP will somewhat... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2803&PID=11151#11151 Author: DenisK
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Posted: 30-Jun-2011 at 5:52pm

EF June 2011 CTP will somewhat support enums.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2011/06/30/walkthrough-enums-june-ctp.aspx
]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:52:23 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2803&PID=11151#11151 Enums in Entities : Hi bradirby;DevForce supported... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2803&PID=11143#11143 Author: DenisK
Subject: 2803
Posted: 29-Jun-2011 at 1:06pm

Hi bradirby;

DevForce supported enums back in Classic days but we haven't carried the feature forward and haven't seen enough demand to implement it again.

You're right that EF doesn't support enums but they provide workarounds that should also be applicable in DF. Here's a couple of findings.

Using Custom Property (will not work with LINQ query) - http://cticoder.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/using-enums-with-entity-framework/

Using ComplexType i.e. POCO - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alexj/archive/2009/06/05/tip-23-how-to-fake-enums-in-ef-4.aspx

Using a wrapper to change the actual query - http://landman-code.blogspot.com/2010/08/adding-support-for-enum-properties-on.html

Hope this helps.
]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:06:33 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2803&PID=11143#11143 Enums in Entities : EF does not support enums in the... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2803&PID=11141#11141 Author: bradirby
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Posted: 29-Jun-2011 at 4:54am

EF does not support enums in the entities.  Does DevForce support this?

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