The Business Object Model producer can generate the business objects layer above the persistence layer. It generates .NET class for the entities declared in design model.
For each entity, the BOM producer generates two business objects : one object for the entity and one object for the entity set.
You can notice that the producer has generated two class for the Customer entity :
- the Customer class with the properties Id, FirstName, LastName
- the CustomerCollection class with the properties Count and this[int index].
You can also notice that the two class have the same signature for the Insert, Save and Delete method. Fortunately, for the Load method, the signature is different : the Customer class has a Load method to load one entity and the CustomerCollection class has a LoadAll method to load all the entities.
Here are the configuration options.
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Compile With CodeFluent | Define if CodeFluent must compile the target assembly. |
| Compile With Visual Studio | Determine if the target assembly will be compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio. |
| Generate Xml Documentation | Determines if Xml code documentation must be generated. |
| Output Name | Defines the compiled assembly name or path. |
| Target Lanquage | Define options specific to the chosen CodeDom provider. |
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Data Annotations Modes | Determines how attributes in the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace are added to the generated code. Only supported with a target framework higher or equal to 4. |
| Target Directory | Defines the directory path where scripts will be generated. |
| Target Project (read only) | Defines the Visual Studio target project to update when generating files. This is a file path to the project file, such as .csproj, etc. and is determined by the Target Directory property. |
| Target Project Layout | Defines options when updating the Visual Studio target project. |