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18.5. Properties Window

Although the Class Details window is useful it does not provide all the information required for entity components. For example, properties can be marked as read-only, which is not displayed in the Class Details window. The Properties window in Figure 18-5 shows the full list of attributes for the Orders property of the Customer class.

Figure 18.5. Figure 18-5

Figure 18-5 shows that the Orders property is read-only and that it is not static. It also shows that this property is defined in the Customer.cs file. With partial classes, a class may be separated over multiple files. When a partial class is selected, the File Name property will show all files defining that class as a comma-delimited list. As a result of an arbitrary decision made when implementing the Class Designer, some of these properties are read-only in the Designer. They can, of course, be adjusted within the appropriate code file.