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a ReadOnly property is useful is for calculated values<br />
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This may be what I need then...<br />
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Say I have <br />
Person.Age<br />
along with today's date.<br />
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If wanted to have <br />
Person.BirthDate<br />
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could that be a ReadOnly property?<br />

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a ReadOnly property is useful is for calculated values

This may be what I need then...

Say I have
Person.Age
along with today's date.

If wanted to have
Person.BirthDate

could that be a ReadOnly property?


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sirbounty,<br />
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Yes but you should probably better have the BirthDate field in your database (read/write property) and a ReadOnly Age property.
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sirbounty,

Yes but you should probably better have the BirthDate field in your database (read/write property) and a ReadOnly Age property.

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Yeah - just the quickest example I could come up off the top of my head... ;^)<br />
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Thanx, as always.
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Yeah - just the quickest example I could come up off the top of my head... ;^)

Thanx, as always.

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What case(s) would I need to use <br />
ReadOnly or WriteOnly <br />
properties?<br />
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I may have a follow-up or two on this, so I'll start it low and increase it if I need further explanation(s0&gt;<br />
Thanx!
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What case(s) would I need to use 
ReadOnly or WriteOnly 
properties?

I may have a follow-up or two on this, so I'll start it low and increase it if I need further explanation(s0>
Thanx!

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