将文档添加到实体框架生成的实体

Question

T4 enerate for me some entities like this :

public partial class Use
{

    public int UseId { get; set; }
    public int ProgramId { get; set; }
    public System.DateTime InUseDate { get; set; }
}

i whant to add documentation to this entity. i proceed like folowing:

[MetadataType(typeof(UseData))]
public partial class Use { 

}
public class UseData
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This is an ID
    /// </summary>
    [Display(
        Name = "Use ID",
        Description = "This is an ID Desc")
    ]
    public int UseId;
}

but VS autocomplete dont show me the summary of my UseIdattribute.

any ideas

Answer 1

If you're using an EDMX all you have to do is go to the entity property in the designer, open the Visual Studio properties tab and fill in the documentation .

Generates code with xml summary...

    /// <summary>
    /// Database and Application Version
    /// </summary>
    [EdmScalarPropertyAttribute(EntityKeyProperty=true, IsNullable=false)]
    [DataMemberAttribute()]
    public global::System.Int32 MajorVersion
    {
        get
        {
            return _MajorVersion;
        }
        set
        {
            if (_MajorVersion != value)
            {
                OnMajorVersionChanging(value);
                ReportPropertyChanging("MajorVersion");
                _MajorVersion = StructuralObject.SetValidValue(value);
                ReportPropertyChanged("MajorVersion");
                OnMajorVersionChanged();
            }
        }
    }