Deal with Readonly values in ASP.NET (Core) applications and Azure Tables -

i have object this:

class record  {     public datetime created { get; set; } // ? set or not set ?     public string name { get; set; }      public record() : (datetime.now) { }     public record(datetime created) { this.created = created; } } 

my problem don't know how expose created member, read-only get; or set;?

that member set once when created (by constructor), should readonly viewed.

in edit view have problems field, because if expose them writeable (with set) input tries update or says it's wrong formatted; other side if readonly not load database (azure tables in case)...

here function recuperates records "database" (azure tables):

public async task<list<t>> gettableentitiesasync<t>(string partition) t : itableentity, new() {     tablequery<t> recordsquery = new tablequery<t>().where(         tablequery.generatefiltercondition("partitionkey", querycomparisons.equal, partition));     list<t> mylist = new list<t>();      var items = await this.gettable<t>().executequerysegmentedasync<t>(recordsquery, null);     mylist = items.tolist();      return mylist; // when readonly records have created == datetime.now } 

you may use 2 models:

1. simple dto class storing to/retrieving db

   class dbrecord  {    public datetime created { get; set; }    public string name { get; set; } } 

2. business model specific logic time handling

   class record  {    public datetime created { get; private set; }    public string name { get; set; }     public record() { this.created = datetime.now;}     public record(dbrecord dbrecord)     {          this.name = dbrecord.name;         this.created = dbrecord.created;     } }