How is this accomplished? If you put indexes, aren't they on the table and not on the view?

No prob :)

maybe something like this could be usefull?! [OnDeserializing()] internal void OnDeserializingMethod(StreamingContext context) { this.nonserializedmember = reInitialise(); foreach (Child c in this.childs) { child.newNonserializedValue = this.nonserializedmember; } }

If you don't want to store it, but on deserialization want to get default values. Then maybe the OnDeserializedAttribute can be of use... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.ondeserializedattribute.aspx

I thought NonSerialized is intended for this purpose, or what whould you expect?