LINQtoSQL Custom Constructor off Partial Class?
- by sah302
Hi all,
I read this question here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/82409/is-there-a-way-to-override-the-empty-constructor-in-a-class-generated-by-linqtosq
Typically my constructor would look like:
public User(String username, String password, String email, DateTime birthday, Char gender)
{
this.Id = Guid.NewGuid();
this.DateCreated = this.DateModified = DateTime.Now;
this.Username = username;
this.Password = password;
this.Email = email;
this.Birthday = birthday;
this.Gender = gender;
}
However, as read in that question, you want to use partial method OnCreated() instead to assign values and not overwrite the default constructor. Okay so I got this :
partial void OnCreated()
{
this.Id = Guid.NewGuid();
this.DateCreated = this.DateModified = DateTime.Now;
this.Username = username;
this.Password = password;
this.Email = email;
this.Birthday = birthday;
this.Gender = gender;
}
However, this gives me two errors:
Partial Methods must be declared private.
Partial Methods must have empty method bodies.
Alright I change it to Private Sub OnCreated() to remove both of those errors. However I am still stuck with...how can I pass it values as I would with a normal custom constructor?
Also I am doing this in VB (converted it since I know most know/prefer C#), so would that have an affect on this?
