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Daniela
Daniela

Reputation: 11

MVC3 application

I'm working on an MVC3 application. I created my POCO classes through the ADO.NET DbContext Generator and I'm using partial classes to add validation on properties. Now, when I try to serialize one of my entities I receive this error:

"Cannot serialize member .... of type 'System.Collections.Generic.ICollection`1[....."

I googled this error and I discovered that it's possible to add the tag [XmlIgnore] to certain properties. But the point is that I can't put this tag on the properties because they are created everytime by the generator. So how I can do this in a simpler way ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 193

Answers (1)

DanielB
DanielB

Reputation: 20240

The key is the MetadataTypeAttribute. You can add this to your partial class which implements the additional properties and your validation logic. Then create a meta data class with a property of the same name of your generated class, and apply the attribute you need.

[MetadataType(typeof(MyPOCOMetaData))]
public partial class MyPOCO
{
    // your partial validation code and properties
}

public class MyPOCOMetaData
{
    [XmlIgnore]
    public string GenerateProperyName { get; set; }
}

Upvotes: 1

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