Generate Entitities in separate folder

Question

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I have an Folder Server with the VDB.Data Class Library. In that class library i have my VDB edmx. But i wonna have my generated entities in een other folder. They must come in the Common Folder under the VDB.Common.Model --> Entities --> Generated

In the edmx are Customer ,Order , Orderdetails Then must under the generated file be a VDBEntities.tt with underneath the following entities Customer, Order, Orderdetails

But how must i do that? I only can do it under the VDB.Data Library Anybody who can help me?

Answer 1

You can't and don't want to put the entities in separate files. You should not modify the generated files.

All of the entities are implemented as partial classes by the framework. This means that you can extend the code in a separate file.

For example, if you want to add a calculated property to the Customer class, create a Customer.cs file in the folder of your choosing, and declare it with the partial keyword:

public partial class Customer
{
    public int CalculatedTotalOrders
    {
        get { return this.Orders.Sum(o => o.Total); }
    }
}

Although you've only declared one property in this file, you can access any of the properties of the class; the declaration is just split among multiple files -- in this case one generated file (that you don't touch) and one file of your making.