Subsonic adding new fields to existing site

Question

i've inherited a project that is using subsonic. I wish to extend the OrderItem class with a new property "ProductType".

I am able to add the following. But as this a sub directory of /generated/ i'm obviously feeling like i'm missing a trick here. Do i need some kind of BAT file.

  [XmlAttribute("ProductType")]
    public string ProductType
    {
        get { return GetColumnValue<string>(Columns.ProductType); }

        set { SetColumnValue(Columns.ProductType, value); }

    }

Answer 1

You should use a partial class to do this. See the following answer for an example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1480286/adding-properties-to-an-existing-object-retreived-using-subsonic/1481772#1481772

Answer 2

You don't want to change the code generated stuff - it will get overwritten. Instead add a partial as Adam suggests.

The code generation works using T4 templates - right click and "Run Custom Control" and it just runs:

http://subsonicproject.com/docs/T4%5FTemplates