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ColumnAttribute Class

Associates a class with a column in a database table.

Namespace:  System.Data.Linq.Mapping
Assembly:  System.Data.Linq (in System.Data.Linq.dll)

[AttributeUsageAttribute(AttributeTargets.Property|AttributeTargets.Field, AllowMultiple = false)]
public sealed class ColumnAttribute : DataAttribute

Use this attribute to designate a member of an entity class to represent a column in a database table. You can apply this attribute to any field or property that is public, private, or internal.

Only those entity class members identified as columns are persisted when LINQ to SQL saves changes to the database.

Use commas to separate multiple properties on the attribute.

[Table(Name="Employees")]
public class Employees
{
    private string _LastName;    
    // …
    [Column(Storage="_LastName", DbType="NVarChar(20) NOT NULL", 
        CanBeNull=false)]
    public string LastName
    {
        get
        {
            return this._LastName;
        }
        set
        {
            if ((this._LastName != value))
            {
                this.OnPropertyChanging("LastName");
                this._LastName = value;
                this.OnPropertyChanged("LastName");
            }
        }
    }
}

System.Object
  System.Attribute
    System.Data.Linq.Mapping.DataAttribute
      System.Data.Linq.Mapping.ColumnAttribute

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5

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