Would it be possible to add something to the BOMapper so that we can specify descriptions for fields. It would be helpful for so that we could use these descriptions for display purposes on our forms.



We have read a few posts concerning field descriptions in the BO and it appears that the Description attribute gets set as the field name by the BOMapper, and if we change it then it just gets overridden.

Sounds like it would definitely work.  Is that something that requires SQL 2005?  If so, would the users have to have 2005 or just developers?  I assume just developers if the descriptions would be housed inside the BOs themselves.  That would be ideal since our users have a variety of db providers.

Yes, the descriptions would be retrieved when the business object's partial class was built and they would stay there until the partial class was rebuilt again.

I believe there is a description property within SQL Server 2000 as well as 2005... maybe even back to 6.5 or so, but for sure 2000+