PLINQO - CodeSmith LINQ to SQL Templates

August 10, 2007

PLINQO, which stands for Professional LINQ to Objects, is a collection of CodeSmith templates that are meant to replace and extend the LINQ to SQL designers that are included with Visual Studio 2008.

Features

• Generate or update a LINQ to SQL dbml file from a database schema.
  • Includes all tables, stored procedures, functions, and views with the ability to exclude objects based on regex patterns.
  • Ability to automatically remove object prefix and suffixes (ie. tbl_ and usp_).
  • Dbml file can still be customized with the normal Visual Studio 2008 designer.
  • Dbml file can be refreshed based on the current database schema without losing customizations. (See Safe Attributes)
• Generation of the LINQ to SQL DataContext class.
• Generation of the LINQ to SQL entity classes.
  • Generates one file per entity instead of one massive file.
  • Generates partial classes where custom code can be written and won’t be overwritten.
  • Generated entity files are added to the project as code behind files to their corresponding custom entity files.
• Generation of entity manager classes.
  • Adds customizable business rules engine to enforce entity validation, business and security rules.
  • Provides access to common queries based on primary keys, foreign keys, and indexes.
  • Common queries are exposed as IQueryable so they can be extended.
• All templates can be customized to meet your needs.

Read More

http://community.codesmithtools.com/blogs/pwelter/archive/2007/08/08/plinqo.aspx

Download

http://www.codeplex.com/codesmith/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx