Inheritance and WCF RIA Service

[Henk]

Hi,

I try to use inheritance in my Domain Model and WCF RIA Service with a Silverlight client.
When I try to build the solution I get the following error:

The derived entity type 'InheritedType' must be declared in a KnownTypeAttribute on the root entity 'BaseType'.

Can these attributes be added?

Kind Regards.

[PetarP]

Hello Henk,

 That is attribute that comes with the RIA services. You will have to put it on your base class as the error suggests. Unfortunately currently we do not provide a way to mark your classes with custom attributes out of the box and this has to be done manually.

Kind regards,
Petar
the Telerik team

[Henk]

Hi Petar,

Thanks for your answer.
Do I need to add this code each time in the "class.generated.cs" files when these files are generated or is there a better place to add these attributes so my code is not overwritten each time I make a change to my model?

Kind Regards.

[PetarP]

Hi Henk,

 Class level attributes can be defined in a partial class so that they are not overwritten on each code generation. Unfortunately this is valid only for classes and it cannot be applied to properties as well.The property level attributes must be defined in the generated code and thus they will be overwritten.

Kind regards,
Petar
the Telerik team