Mapping class properties to generic columns in table .NET

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Published on 2009-06-29T21:37:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 20:03 UTC
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I have have a SQL Server table which has generic names like Text1, Text2.. etc. The table was designed like this because the same structure is used for different projects.

I have a class in .NET which has properties. Say a Customer class has a property called FirstName.

How can I do the mapping from FirstName to Text1 just once (central place) in the application so that I don't have to remember and hard code the mappings all over the app when I create the different DAL methods?

For example, I want the app to know when I want to update, insert a FirstName, the DAL automatically uses Text1. Basically I don't have to remember which property goes to which column. The idea is so the developers do not map the properlies/columns in a wrong way. It's always consistent.

Note: Database inserts, updates and deletes are allowed through stored procedures only.

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