Question

Im making a report in the VS 2010 report designer, the main source of the data is the Lines entity. But I need an extra field from another entity Parts. So I added a partial class of Line with the extra property like so :

public partial class Line
{
    public string ShelfLocation
    {
        get
        {
            using (RSContext rs = new RSContext())
            {
                return rs.Parts.First(x => x.Code == this.Part).ShelfLocation;
            }
        }
    }

Problem is I still cant see this extra field from the report designer :

How can I acheive this without creating another view?

Many thanks in advance.

EDIT 1 (both in same namespace) :

Answer 1

I dont know if there is a better solution but for the time being I added this manually to the report and it worked :

<Fields>    
...
    <Field Name="ShelfLocation">
          <DataField>ShelfLocation</DataField>
          <rd:TypeName>System.String</rd:TypeName>
   </Field>
</Fields>