Hi All,

I found this brilliant solution by Otis:

"One other way would have been by using a projection, fetch a dyn. list using the fields of the entity instance and a filter on the PK field, and the factory to produce the entity instance."

See: http://www.llblgen.com/tinyforum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=8445 (last message)

I need this, but unfortunatly I have no clue what is meant by it

Anyone any pointers?

TIA,

Gab

Hi,

One way is:

            // Set the name
            string entityName = "ModuleEntity";         

            EntityType typeOfEntity = (EntityType)Enum.Parse(typeof(EntityType), entityName, false);
            IEntity entityInstance = GeneralEntityFactory.Create(typeOfEntity);
            IEntity loadedEntity = Activator.CreateInstance(entityInstance.GetType(), new object[] { 2 }) as IEntity;

            // Fetch info from the retrieved entity
            this.Title = loadedEntity.Fields["NameShort"].CurrentValue.ToString();

Where "2" is the primary key value and "ModuleEntity" the entity name

But I'm still looking for the other solution and maybe better performing solutions.

Cheers, Gab

Since the goal is to have an Entity instance, I'd have done it using the Activator.CreateInstance() method (same as you did).