Hi there, I'm curious if it's possible to overwrite the 'Delete' method. Or maybe to define own 'global' methods like Save() and Delete().

Background:
I'm supposed to rather flag something as 'deleted' instead of really deleting something. Since it needs a lot of patience to implement a property called 'Deleted' and a method called 'DeleteRestore' on every single entity and it's also hard to maintain if something somewhere changes, I'd thought of implementing the property only on the entities necessary and then check for it's existence in the 'DeleteRestore' method. If it exists, it gets flipped; if not, it calls Delete() on the entity.

Currently I'm using an external method like:

ExternalLibrary.GenericMethods.DeleteRestore(object entity)
{
	Type entityType = entity.GetType();
	bool? deleted;

	try
	{
		PropertyInfo pi = entityType.GetProperty("Deleted");
		deleted = ((bool?)pi.GetValue(entity, null)) ?? false);
		pi.SetValue(entity, !deleted, null);

		MethodInfo mi = entityType.GetMethod("Save");
		mi.Invoke(entity, new object[0]);
	}
	catch { }
}

to achieve this. But I don't like it that much. I'd rather like to use a 'global' method, so I can call something like

ticket.DeleteRestore();

instead of

ExternalAssembly.GenericMethods.DeleteRestore(ticket);

Someone on saleslogix.com told me to look up the code templates. I did this and changed the following there:

<#	OrmEntityProperty deleted = entity.GetPropertyByPropertyName("Deleted"); #>
<#	if (deleted != null) #>
<#	{ #>
		public override void Delete()
		{
			// Put the magic here
		}
		
		public override void Restore()
		{
			// Put some other magic here
		}
<#	} #>
<#	else #>
<#	{ #>
		public override void Delete()
		{
			// The current magic happens here
		}
<#	} #>

This works well and looks nice, but I realized this is a way bigger task than expected. I think, I'll stick with the current solution for now and might get back to this later.