Data class implementations not fully passed to Silverlight?

[Michael Eber]

Here is my scenario: Data Layer : running as an simple web service as required by Silverlight Entities are generated from the database tables An extended class is defined with the following additions:

public partial class CustomerMaster
{
	public override string ToString( )
	{
		return this.CustomerName;
	}
}
public partial class CustomerLocation
{
	public override string ToString( )
	{
		return this.\_LocationID;
	}
}

CustomerMaster and CustomerLocation are two entities derived from the database. Silverlight side When I get my data I bind a list box to the result of my async query. I get the list of customers no problem. But listbox calls ToString() on my objects and I'm getting the default behaviour (namespace) not my overridden code!!!??? Anyone know a reason why this would happen?

[Abhinav S]

Methods are not part of the DataContract so they won't be available when you create the proxy for the client.

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[Michael Eber]

yeh...found I had to specify the field in the data to display within the properties.