Is there a way to tell if an entity is abstract (in the inheritance sense)?

mikeg22 wrote:

Is there a way to tell if an entity is abstract (in the inheritance sense)?

You mean at runtime? One option is certaily to use reflection.

Indeed, and then check the constructor, it should be internal.

Otis wrote:

Indeed, and then check the constructor, it should be internal.

I'd like to generate this property into the entity maybe in the entityInclude template. Unfortunately I can't make it shared because you can't override a shared property (which I would want to do in the subclasses of the Abstract supertype). Do you think adding this as a custom entity property in the designer would be the best solution?

Actually, because it is shared (static in C#) you don't have to override it. This compiles fine:

    public abstract class FooBar
    {
        public static bool IsAbstract
        {
            get { return true; }
        }

    }

    public class Fooby : FooBar
    {
        public static bool IsAbstract
        {
            get
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }

Chester wrote:

Actually, because it is shared (static in C#) you don't have to override it. This compiles fine:

    public abstract class FooBar
    {
        public static bool IsAbstract
        {
            get { return true; }
        }

    }

    public class Fooby : FooBar
    {
        public static bool IsAbstract
        {
            get
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }

I had no idea you could do that...thanks!