DBField Class

Initializes a new instance of the DBField class.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether this element is created by the designer from mappings (true) or that it was created from meta-data retrieved from the database (false, default).

Gets the Custom properties (name - value pairs) read from the schema.

Gets the DB type of the field.

Gets the DbType as string.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether this instance is deserializing.

Gets the complete ErrorLog for this object.

Literal name of the field.

Gets the full name.

Gets the full name for XML. This is a name which has the format schemaname:elementname or schemaname:elementname:fieldname. Used for references.

Gets the full name for XML. This is a name which has the format catalogname:schemaname:elementname or catalogname:schemaname:elementname:fieldname. Used for references.

Flag which signals if this field is an autonumber/identity field.

Flag which signals if this field can contain NULL.

Flag which signals if this field is a timestamp field.

Gets the length of the type of the target field.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether this element is marked for deletion.

Gets the NET type as string.

The ordinal position of the instance of DBField in the table or view referenced by ParentTable or ParentView. (See DBTableField and DBViewField) OrdinalPosition is also called 'column identification number' and is the order in the fieldlist of the table or view. OrdinalPosition is 1-based, which means the first field has OrdinalPosition 1.

Gets the precision of the type of the target field.

Gets the scale of the type of the target field.

DBTypeDefinition instance representing the type of this field.

Gets the type of DB element in the form of a ContainedElementType value.

Gets the name of the UDT the db type is based on. If not applicable, an empty string is returned.

Handles the ValueChanged event of the _member control.

Deserializes attributes of this element's base class from the reader.

Deserializes the additional attributes.

Deserializes from reader.

Performs application-defined tasks associated with freeing, releasing, or resetting unmanaged resources.

Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.

Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.

Serves as the default hash function.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Handles the contained list changed.

Logs an error in the ErrorLog structure of this object.

Logs the description as a warning.

Marks the element as changed.

Marks the element as removed, which raises the ElementRemoved event.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Called when this object received an event of type ContainedElementAdded

Called when this object received an event of type ContainedElementChanged

Called when this object received an event of type ContainedElementRemoved

Raises the PropertyChanged event.

Performs the additional contained element changed work. Override if additional work has to be done after the OnContainedElementChanged method has run.

Resets the change tracker.

Resets the Error Log for this object to an empty list.

Serializes the additional attributes.

Serializes the data in this class to the serializer passed in

Returns the name of the field as string

Raised when an element was added to a collection (indirectly) contained in this element

Raised when an element contained in this element was changed.

Raised when an element was removed from a collection (indirectly) contained in this element

Raised when the implementing element has been changed

Raised when the implementing element has been removed from its container

Occurs when a property value changes. (INotifyPropertyChanged)