Sedodream Relase: MSBuild Linq Tasks

I’ve created a new release of MSBuild tasks, at www.codeplex.com/sedodream. This release includes 4 .NET 3.5 tasks built on Visual Studio B2. Those are all Linq MSBuild tasks. They are:

Name	Description
CreateLinqCode	Creates a Linq code file from a database.
CreateLinqDbml	Creates a Linq DBML file from a database.
CreateLinqMap	Creates a Linq Map file from a database.
CreateDatabase	Creates a database from an Linq DataContext which is contained in an assembly.

The first three tasks simply wrap the SqlMetal command line utility. The last, CreateDatabse, will create a database from a Linq DataContext that is contained in an assembly. Right now there is little validation of the parameters passed, but I plan on adding additional validation. Also I will add more meaningful error messages, when invalid parameters are passed through.

Below you’ll find an example of the CreateLinqCode task.

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<CreateLinqCode

CodeFileName="ibrahimTest.cs"

ConnectionString="data source=(local);initial catalog=ibrtest;integrated security=SSPI;packet size=4096"

Timeout="15"

Language="C#"

ContextClassName="IbrTestDataContext"

IncludeViews="true"

IncludeSprocs="true"

IncludeFunctions="true"

TargetNamespace="Sedodream.Linq.Test"

CreateLinqCode>

Target>

Project>

Here is the CreateLinqDbml task usage.

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<CreateLinqDbml

DbmlFileName="ibrahimTest.dbml"

OutDir="."