Ok, so I need to have instance of the entity before I can use this method? How do I get this name without having to have and instance of the actuall entity? Shouldn't generated entities have a shared (static) property with entity name so that I do not have to use "xxxEntity" but rather xxxEntity.Name. This would prevent errors if entity name has been changed.

Any suggestions.

You will find the answer here:

http://www.llblgen.com/tinyforum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=639&HighLight=1

I read that post before asking a question, and a question still stands. That is not a static property of the xxxentity. You have to get instance before using it. Just doing xxxEntity. does not produce that property in intelisense.

Woops...good point - that could be static I suppose. (Sorry....)

It can't be static, because it has to be overriden by derived entities, hence an instance variable.

Creating an instance of a class is very fast in .NET, so I really wouldn't make a big deal out of this, especially because the framework also creates instances under the hood sometimes to retrieve meta-data/other data.

Exp2000, You could create a static method in a derrived class of 'GetEntityName'. That would simply instantiate the entity and return the instance variable....