DBViewField Properties

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.

Reference to the DBView instance which reflects the table this DBViewField instance belongs to.

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.

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

Gets the DbType as string.

Gets the default sequence. Only set when the database supports default sequence hints. otherwise null

The default value for this field. It is represented in a string, since it's only used in the code generation process. Is only valid if HasDefaultValue returns true.

Gets the direction of the parameter represented by this fieldmaptarget element

Literal name of the field.

Gets the full name which is of the format: Parent's FullName.FieldName

Flag which signals if this field has a default value. If true, DefaultValue should return the default value for this field.

Flag which signals if this field's value is retrieved using a function stored with the field in the database.

Flag which signals if this field has a foreign key (FK) constraint. By design, fields can have only one foreign key constraint, since more than one is semantically wrong.

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 part of the primary key (PK) of the IDBTable referenced by Parent.

Flag which signals if this field is a RowGUID field. Microsoft Specific.

Flag which signals if this field is a timestamp field.

Gets the length of the type of the target field.

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.

Reference to the IProjectElementMapTargetElement instance which reflects the table this IEntityFieldMapTargetElement instance belongs to.

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