Hide fields generated for associations entity framework

[steven scaife]

Hello

I have been playing around with the EF and I really like it. The thing
bothering me at the moment is when I load an table in the dynamicdata pages
add select to insert a new item. The association is showing as a drop down
field.

I have a table that keeps reporting information about several other tables.
And this is a foreign key inside the item I am creating. so when I call
savechanges I have added my own logic to create a new tracking entity and
adding the object I want to create through the form to the tracking objects
entityset. This all works and the two records are inserted into the database.

However because each record I insert must have the primary key of the
tracking object saved with it, (which my code sorts) the drop down is
pointless and potentially confusing so how would I go about not showing it on
the data entry form.

Is there an attribute I can add to a partial class or can I intercept the
load event and write code to stop it being shown or do I have to create my
own page and forget about the dynamic pages in this type of scenario.

any help is really appreciated.

 

[steven scaife]

Doesn't matter found the following post on the asp.net forums

http://forums.asp.net/t/1256944.aspx which explains everything