Friday, September 18, 2009

PLINQO - strange name, nice concept

I've been writing a lot of code around Linq to SQL, and are getting concerned about the future support etc. from Microsoft. Competition with Linq to Entities (I only need 1:1 mapping so Linq to SQL hits the sweet spot for me), means less focus on this tool. For starters there should be synchronisation of database changes, support for enums, etc.

PLINQO is built on the CodeSmith Tools, which is a template-driven code generator. The nice thing about that is you can get in and change/create templates, rather than take the hard-coded SQLMETAL view of the world. Nice!

Regards, Fil.

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