New designer question - extending generated classes

[Greg]

I'm starting a new project, and evaluating OpenAccess to manage our DAL.  I believe it would be a better to start using the new designer rather than the previous reverse mapping method, however I am having trouble finding references/examples using the new designer.  I'm working through it, but am not sure about this:

Is it possible to extend classes generated using the new designer? If so, what is the best method to do so?

Specifically, what we need to do is implement INotifyPropertyChanged for some of our entities to manage WPF data binding. Does anyone have advise on how best to approach?

[Damyan Bogoev]

Hello Greg,

Currently using a custom code generation template for the new designer is not fully supported. There are some issues which were fixed and will be part of the next service pack of the Telerik OpenAccess ORM.
You will probably find helpful our code library example “Using Telerik OpenAccess ORM and WPF”.

Sincerely yours,
Damyan Bogoev
the Telerik team

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[Andrei]

Hi
With the q2 release can you explain how its possible to extend a generated class ?

Thanks

[Damyan Bogoev]

Hi Andrei,

You could create a new partial class with the same name where you can place the extension logic for the persistent class. Otherwise if you provide the logic within the class file generated from the dsl all the changes will be reset.

Hope that helps.

All the best,
Damyan Bogoev
the Telerik team