MaxLength missing in the Conceptual Model

skingaby · Post by **skingaby** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 20:00

Do you have any plans to parse the MaxLength from the Store model into the MaxLength property on the Conceptual Model? This seems to be a missing piece in the rendered XML.

I have other 3rd party tools that read the Conceptual Model and pick up the MaxLength property to define column validators, but they are not getting any lengths because these are not emitted in your tool.

skingaby · Post by **skingaby** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 20:06

I just tested something else. I had manually set the MaxLength on one of the fields in the Conceptual Model:

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After opening this in your Entity Developer, the MaxLength property was erased.

It would be nice if Entity Developer set this property for me, but it is a much more serious bug that it erases it after I manually set it.

skingaby · Post by **skingaby** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 20:19

Further testing has me confused. It looks like ED is preserving the manual change, but I will re-iterate that ED should populate the MaxLength in the Conceptual Model. Thanks.

AndreyR · Post by **AndreyR** » Fri 17 Jul 2009 11:19

Thank you for the suggestion. This functionality will be available in the next build.

skingaby · Post by **skingaby** » Fri 17 Jul 2009 15:22

Thank you!