I know, I know!!!! 2 feature request in the same hour!!!

But this one is really more of a discussion point rather than a request

I would like to be able to design some custom entity interfaces within the Desginer. Let me give you an example:

I have several tables that have some common fields:

CreatedBy
CreatedDate
IsActive

Now before the normalisation police arrest me, I don't want to put these fields in their own table for practicality reasons (performance etc)... So I end up with generated Enitities each of which have these common properties.

I would like to be able to create a custom interface in the designer and tag tables which implement this interface. The following interface would be generate and chosen Entities would implement it:

        public interface IMyCommonFields
        {
            int CreatedByID { get; set; }
            DateTime CreatedDate { get; set; }
            bool IsActive { get; set; }
        }

This would allow me to pass selected Entities around and access their common fields more elegantly...

What do you think?

Marcus

I would also like to have a feature like this.

I'll add it to the todo list to be considered as a future enhancement.

Hi,

I will love this feature.

i 3rd taht

Oh dear Frans... now your gonna have to implement it!!!

Well, 'somewhere in the future'. At the moment I'm near madness over wdsl.exe which produces garbage because it thinks any type other than dataset must still be a dataset and I can't produce a schema which tells the darn wdsl crappy to take a hike and use the type specified...