Currently when you watch an entity in the debugger a generated class, there are lots of seldom used members cluttering the display such as AlreadyFetched<variousnames>.

Couldn't this be made much cleaner by adding a derived class somewhere that contained these members, so that looking at the debug view for the entity becomes very clean and simple?

That way if I have a table with 3 columns I mostly see just 3 properties, and if I need to see all the plumbing I can just click on +base in the debugger.

regards, LTG

The members won't go away as they're public properties of the class. We can't remove them as they're already released as part of the interface.

I pressume you're mainly interested in the values of the fields ?

I remember reading in Debugging .Net 2.0 application there are attributes that you decorate the properties so they are effectively hidden in the quick view / watch windows, of course you can see them explicitly if typed. I dont have the book at hand today but if google proves pointless I'll look it out tonight.

You can apply these to the templates.

**>>I pressume you're mainly interested in the values of the fields ? ** Well user values and user methods. 90% of the time people will not need the lower level LLBLGen properties/methods.

>>The members won't go away as they're public properties of the class. Oh yes they will

Consider a class generated called CategoriesEntity.

If I were LLBLGen I could have simply named this class CategoriesEntityBase, and then generated a derived class like this:

class CategoriesEntity : CategoriesEntityBase { public CategoriesEntity() {}

    public int CategoryName  // plus other user data and user methods
    {
       get { return base.CategoryName; }
    }
}

Now an instance of this class could be created like this: var cleanEntity = new CategoriesEntity();

Then when viewing cleanEntity in the debugger you will see only this beautiful sight: cleanEntity +base CategoryName

So this is one way it could be done with no interface or client or performance implications.

I think the other poster is correct that it can also be done via decorations, but I haven't researched the syntax of that approach.

Regards, LTG