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?