Creating a LINK-to-SQL datalayer

Question

I usually use Codesmith and NetTiers for my datalayers, and since they can be run from the command line, for ease of restyling / rebuilding everything, a simple batch file is required when changes are made to the database.

Now I am looking for LINQ-to-SQL, but I do not find the WYSIWYG object constructor more convenient. What other methods are available for generating LINQ to SQL classes? Does anyone have experience using SQLMetal?

Thanks.

Answer 1

SQLMetal . LINQ, , , , datamodel , dbml.

LINQ-to-SQL, :

sqlmetal /code:YourCodeFile.designer.cs /namespace:Desired.Namespace YourModel.dbml

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