Setting value of an XElement property

russelle posted on Wednesday, December 02, 2009

I have a business object property of type System.Xml.Linq.XElement:

//HouseholdDemographicsXML Property

private static PropertyInfo<XElement> HouseholdDemographicsXMLProperty =

  RegisterProperty(typeof(Household),

  new PropertyInfo<XElement>("HouseholdDemographicsXML", "Household Demographics XML"));

public XElement HouseholdDemographicsXML

  {

     get { return GetProperty(HouseholdDemographicsXMLProperty); }

     set { SetProperty(HouseholdDemographicsXMLProperty, value); }

  }

 

When I try and set the value

 

LoadProperty(HouseholdDemographicsXML, XElement.Parse(data.Demographics));

 

where data.Demographics is a string representing an XML fragment, I get the errors

 

The best overloaded method match for Csla.Core.BusinessBase.LoadProperty<System.Xml.Linq.XElement>(Csla.PropertyInfo<System.Xml.Linq.XElement>, System.Xml.Linq.XElement)' has some invalid arguments     

 

and

Argument 1: cannot convert from 'System.Xml.Linq.XElement' to 'Csla.PropertyInfo<System.Xml.Linq.XElement>'

 

What am I doing wrong? Can’t a business object property be an XElement?

ajj3085 replied on Wednesday, December 02, 2009

I think you need to change this:

LoadProperty(HouseholdDemographicsXML, XElement.Parse(data.Demographics));

to this:

LoadProperty(HouseholdDemographicsXMLProperty, XElement.Parse(data.Demographics));

russelle replied on Wednesday, December 02, 2009

You're right. Thanks. Silly of me to miss that!