Question

Basically, it’s the simple scenario of needing to populate a dropdown with LastName, FirstName by combining the two columns in the entity to FullName. I’d like it to live in the entity so I can grab it whenever I find a use for it. Is this possible?

Answer 1

I would add a partial class that has the FullName property. Have a look at the designer file for your data context classes for the namespace and partial classname to use.

namespace your.namespace {    public partial class yourclassname {       public string FullName {           get { return string.format('{0} {1}', FirstName, LastName); }       }   }  }