Binding custom property in Entity Framework
- by deverop
I have an employee entity in my EF model. I then added a class to the project to add a custom property
public partial class Employee
{
public string Name
{
get { return string.Format("{0} {1}", this.FirstName, this.LastName); }
}
}
On a aspx form (inside a FormView), I want to bind a DropDownList to the employee collection:
<asp:Label runat="server" AssociatedControlID="ddlManagerId"
Text="ManagerId" />
<asp:DropDownList ID="ddlManagerId" runat="server"
DataSourceID="edsManagerId"
DataValueField="Id"
DataTextField="Name"
AppendDataBoundItems="true"
SelectedValue='<%# Bind("ManagerId") %>'>
<asp:ListItem Text="-- Select --" Value="0" />
</asp:DropDownList>
<asp:EntityDataSource ID="edsManagerId" runat="server"
ConnectionString="name=Entities"
DefaultContainerName="Entities"
EntitySetName="Employees"
EntityTypeFilter="Employee"
EnableFlattening="true">
</asp:EntityDataSource>
Unfortunately, when I fire up the page, I get an error:
DataBinding: 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.EntityDataSourceWrapper' does not contain a property with the name 'Name'.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
