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.