LINQ to SQL Tips 8: How to (and why) create a partial class in the designer to augment generated code

re: LINQ to SQL Tips 8: How to (and why) create a partial class in the designer to augment generated code

Dinesh Kulkarni - MSFT — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:29:09 GMT

Tim,

That is a very good suggestion. I will pass in on to the V2 team for their consideration.

In general, based on the feedback on this blog and elsewhere, it is clear that users are looking for a lot more than one-shot, black box code gen which is all we could do in V1.

Thanks,

Dinesh

re: LINQ to SQL Tips 8: How to (and why) create a partial class in the designer to augment generated code

Tim Hardy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:03:23 GMT

Is there a way to hook into the code generation process of LINQ? I would love to at least be notified (some event perhaps?) of when LINQ is generating new classes, so that I can generate some partial classes of my own to respond to those changes. As it is now, anything I do above, would have to manually be done everytime I re-generate LINQ classes. At least that's the case if my partial class is even remotely dependent on the table (which it will be 90% of the time). This can easily be solved by simply publishing events from within the code-generation segment and perhaps even publishing some data along with those events (table schema structure of the class being generated, etc).

This is a significant piece that is currently lacking with LINQ to SQL that would bridge the gap for us.

re: LINQ to SQL Tips 8: How to (and why) create a partial class in the designer to augment generated code

Dinesh Kulkarni - MSFT — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:01:51 GMT

Steve, you are right about the omission. I have added a note to the post accordingly.

Thanks.

Dinesh

re: LINQ to SQL Tips 8: How to (and why) create a partial class in the designer to augment generated code

sjnaughton — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:20:15 GMT

Hi Dinesh I've noticed that in a file system based website the View Code is missing and also "Configure Behavoir" is always greyed out in file system based websites.

P.S. I've noted this on Microsoft Connect, but thought it was worth mentioning here as people like me would spend a great deal of time looking for somthing that isn't there

Steve

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