Design and Architecture

using System;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace Relink.Data.Model {

	[Serializable]
	public class EntityModel {

		[XmlIgnore]
		public Int32 EntityID {
			get;
			set;
		}

		#region XML Wrapper
		[XmlElement("EntityID")]
		public String XmlEntityID {
			get {
				return this.EntityID.ToString();
			}
			set {
				try {
					this.EntityID = (Int32)Int32.Parse(value);
				} catch {
					throw new NotImplementedException();
				}
			}
		}
		#endregion

	}

}

using Relink.Data.Enum;
using System;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace Relink.Data.Model {

	[Serializable]
	public class ActorModel : EntityModel {

		public String Firstname {
			get;
			set;
		}
		public String Lastname {
			get;
			set;
		}
		public String Nickname {
			get;
			set;
		}
		[XmlIgnore]
		public Gender Gender {
			get;
			set;
		}
		[XmlIgnore]
		public DateTime Birthday {
			get;
			set;
		}
		public String Emailadress {
			get;
			set;
		}
		public String City {
			get;
			set;
		}
		public String Country {
			get;
			set;
		}

		#region XML Wrapper
		[XmlElement("Gender")]
		public String XmlGender {
			get {
				return this.Gender.ToString();
			}
			set {
				try {
					this.Gender = (Gender)System.Enum.Parse(typeof(Gender), value);
				} catch {
					throw new NotImplementedException();
				}
			}
		}
		[XmlElement("Birthday")]
		public String XmlBirthday {
			get {
				return this.Birthday.ToString();
			}
			set {
				try {
					this.Birthday = DateTime.Parse(value);
				} catch {
					throw new NotImplementedException();
				}
			}
		}
		#endregion

	}

}