>Hi,
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>this is MM.NET 3.6, but maybe is more general than that.
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>I have an Agents table with an Agent Business Object. I need to display a dropdown list of Agents for the user to select. The Agents' names must be formatted "Surname, Firstname Middlename".
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>Do I:
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>1. Add in a formatted/calculated field to the table and then add this field to the BO?
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>2. Add in a field called FullName to the stored procedures that the BO calls to get the data? Or
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>3. Add in a calculated property on the BO?

Each of these methods should work. For me first two will be simpler to implement, but from the purist point of view I think you should go with #3 as formatting should not be done in the database.