Sql tables and columns description

[Filipe Peixinho]

Greetings.

I would like to know if is possible and if there is a way of retrieving sql tables and columns description from database in a Reverse Mapping scenario and/or generate in the Database  those descriptions in a Forward MApping scenario.

Thanks

[Peter Brunner]

Hello Filipe,

Telerik OpenAccess ORM supports both ways.

Our blog post Model first or Schema First provides a good introduction into this and provides further links to other resources.

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Peter Brunner
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[Filipe Peixinho]

Greetings.

I'm not able to find any information on the link you've provided that is related to my question.
I think i haven't made myself clear.

There's a link below to complete my previous question:
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/479032/TableDescription.jpg

[Dimitar Kapitanov]

Hi Filipe Peixinho,
We have it already in our TODO list as an enhancement to our runtime DLL capabilities (you can find more about artificial fields and generic data access in our documentation http://www.telerik.com/help/openaccess-orm/openaccess-tasks-howto-use-artificial-fields.html and http://www.telerik.com/help/openaccess-orm/generic-data-access-overview.html). While we are unable to say when exactly it will make it inside the product I believe it will be lately for Q1 2010. Hope that helps.

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Dimitar Kapitanov
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[Dimitar Kapitanov]

Hi Filipe Peixinho,
We have it already in our TODO list as an enhancement to our runtime DLL capabilities (you can find more about artificial fields and generic data access in our documentation http://www.telerik.com/help/openaccess-orm/openaccess-tasks-howto-use-artificial-fields.html and http://www.telerik.com/help/openaccess-orm/generic-data-access-overview.html). While we are unable to say when exactly it will make it inside the product I believe it will be lately for Q1 2010. Hope that helps.

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Dimitar Kapitanov
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[Simsonic]

Hi there

This function would be verry useful. Its quite annoying to write the description in the database AND in the classes. So i hope you can implement this function!

Regards,
Simon Wermuth

[Allen]

You misunderstand his meaning.
We have describing each table in your database table design, as well as the summary information for each field.
We hope to ORM these description information can be retrieved from the database and mapped in the entity class to describe writing entity classes as text files.
Just like this:

private int _attrId;
[System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Required()]
/// <summary>
/// This is a Attribute Id
/// </summary>
public virtual int AttrId
{
    get
    {
        return this._attrId;
    }
    set
    {
        if(this._attrId != value)
        {
            this.OnPropertyChanging("AttrId");
            this._attrId = value;
            this.OnPropertyChanged("AttrId");
        }
    }
}

[Viktor Zhivkov]

Hi Allen,

You are welcome to post your feature suggestions in our Ideas and Feedback portal.
There other clients will be able to see your suggestion, comment and vote for it if they want to support it.

Regards,
Viktor Zhivkov
Telerik