Thanks,
-Zach

You would get those options by installing my DBML Fixup plugin for Visual Studio 2008. But it has not yet been released to the public.

David

First of all, thanks for such valuable forum, posted by you. It is a great help for me. But, when i open my project, there i don’t see any “Run Fixup Task” with right click & “DBML Fixup Preference” under Tools menu. So, guide me, how can i get all those options? Is it, i need to install any third party component?

I will be waiting for your update.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Regards

LINQ to XML has suited my needs just fine.

Thanks for the comments. I have tried to reproduce the bug that you described, but I cannot, nor can I find anything on Connect about it. Maybe we can talk later about it.

If you are interested in the minutiae of stored procedures in LINQ to SQL then check out ScottGu’s post here. Look for the section called “Mapping the Return Type of SPROC Methods to Data Model Classes.”

HTH,
David

The tool has been designed to account for your scenario of updating sproc return types as well as the rest of the model, even in cases where your return type was mapped to an entity type which represents a table but must now be mapped to something new because of changes to the sproc.

I do have a question for you. There is a pretty nasty bug in the DBML designer when setting some connection string settings. Basically what happens is everytime you make any changes to the DBML the option that sets whether you store the connection string in the App.Config or not keeps getting set to True! Since we use it alot at work we have to explain to every new developer how to work around this bug… which basically is change the setting back to False everytime you open the DBML file. Do you think your Fixup can solve this issue? Message me sometime if you need more details.

If you want a new topic for a screencast, how about ‘how to map your own custom entities to stored procedures using LinqToSql’ instead of the autogenerated table ones! I have yet to figure it out and thats why I have been playing with code generation these days.