Re: [Firebird-net-provider] LINQ

[Jiri C. <di...@ci...>]

On 4/24/08, Leo <at...@gm...> wrote:
> Jiri, in your blog
>  (http://blog.vyvojar.cz/jirka/archive/2008/03/24/entity-framework-and-firebird-part-2.aspx)
>  there is some code showing Firebird and linq... I know it is just some
>  tests but can you direct me to some docs on wich I can learn how to do

It's support for Entity Framework, which in short is LINQ to SQL for
any database. You have to download ADO.NET Entity Framework and
install it (and some VS patches AFAIR). Current version is Beta 3.
This gives you option to add to project "model". Further steps are
similar to LINQ to SQL, if you're familiar with it.

>  it (where and how I map the tables, etc)? And are you using the svn
>  version of the provider?

Yes, you can use weekly build from (if you don't wanna build it home)
http://netprovider.cincura.net . You need to to have it in GAC and
working DDEX.

It's highly unstable, but at least generating model from tables/or
mapping to tables some entity(ies) should work. Also simple SQL
statements generating should work (this is most unstable part) - from
LINQ or from Entity SQL. Mapping to CLR types is also almost done,
need only some review and testing. I hope to finish it soon (I don't
think I'm far from public alpha) and start testing.

Feel free to ask or provide feedback about tests.

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