Question

In the database, I have a table called Contact. The first name and other such string fields are designed to use a Char datatype (not my database design). My object Contact maps to a string type in the properties. If I wanted to do a simple test retrieving a Contact object by id, I would do something like this:

Contact contact = db.Contacts.Single(c => c.Id == myId); Contact test = new Contact(); test.FirstName = 'Martin';  Assert.AreEqual(test.FirstName, contact.FirstName); 

The contact.FirstName value is ‘Martin ‘ because of the char type. Where can I intercept the FirstName property when it is being loaded? OnFirstNameChanging(string value) does not get called on the initial load (contact), but does on the test object.

Answer 1

Maybe you could put it in the OnLoaded() partial method? Note: I’ve never used this, but I assume it would look like this:

public partial class Contact {     partial void OnLoaded()     {         FirstName = FirstName.Trim();     } }