Hej,

I have the following the name of some entities in an Enum (strings). The enum is used for databinding to a dropdownlist. After the user selects a desired Entity, i want to create automatically a new entity of the selected type. Has anyone an idea how to solve this, I am a newbie @LLBLGEN

Greetz Jonathan

The simplest method is to use the EntityFactoryFactory generated class to return an EntityFactory for the type of entity that you want to create, and then use this to create the Entity for you.

The EntityFactoryFactory class is in the DBGeneric\EntityFactories folder.

Matt

MTrinder wrote:

The simplest method is to use the EntityFactoryFactory generated class to return an EntityFactory for the type of entity that you want to create, and then use this to create the Entity for you.

The EntityFactoryFactory class is in the DBGeneric\EntityFactories folder.

Matt

Thank you very much for your'e help but when I do EntityFactoryFactor.GetFactory(Type) I have to give a type, but i have only a string with the name. Can you give a code example?

Greetz Jonathan

Actually the meaning of my program is, The user selects an Entity and from that entity I display all the fields as rows in a Grid. Ex: I have a drop down list with 3 Entities (Person, Visitor and employee) I a user selects person, i want to fetch all Fields and display them.

Maybe I can do this without generating an entity?

Can you use the EntityType enum for the values of bound to the DropDownList?

That's my problem, not all entities should appear in the drop down-list. Because I'm writing an import, and not all tables are able to import.

You may use string concatenation and reflection or Activator.CreateInstance() to creeate the entityFactory from the strings you are using.

Thank you for you're help