Combining first name field and last name field into fullname for combobox searching.

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Just a simple thing I can't really seem to figure out.

I want to combine the first and the last name into a single full name field and use it for display and navigation in a combo box.

I'm not really looking to add a whole other field called full name, but if that's my only option then I can do it.

Right now, I'm only skilled in visual basic and for my current project I'm using LINQ to Entities for manipulating data. I have not and really do not plan to use stored procedures for my project at the moment.

What I have already tried, is to add a scalar property called "FullName" to my employees table in the entity data model, but I can't seem to get it to hold the first and last name fields like I've done before with regular data sets. I'm assuming it won't work this way since I'm using Entities.

Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks again for taking the time to read this.

Posted 30-Mar-12 7:28am

Mr.McCloud

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Not Active · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-30T08:59:00

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When you add a field to the data model it is expected to be retrieved from the database. However, since you don't have this field it won't add it to the entity.

The class created for the entity is a partial class so you can easy create another partial class in the project and add the fullname property which combines the first and last name properties.

Posted 30-Mar-12 8:59am

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Mr.McCloud 30-Mar-12 16:45pm

Alright, thanks a lot. I'm not very familiar with partial classes, so I'll look into it.