SqlMetal & IUD procs

[Andy]

Hi,

I use procs for my data access, instead of allowing direct inserts and
updates to tables. How can I get SqlMetal to generate code that will
use procs? I know the designer you can Configure Behavior to do
this.. is there no equivolent in Sql Metal?

Thanks

[Marc Gravell]

Well, one of the SqlMetal options is to output the dbml (an xml file).
Dbml can be edited (by hand or automated), then you can use SqlMetal
again to generate code from the edited dbml file. To quote from "/?":

Generate intermediate dbml file from SqlServer:
SqlMetal /server:myserver /database:northwind /dbml:northwind.dbml /
namespace:nwind

Generate code with external mapping from dbml:
SqlMetal /code:nwind.cs /map:nwind.map northwind.dbml

I don't think the /map is necessary - i.e. I suspect you coud use /
code:{outfile.cs} {infile.dbml}

Marc

[Marc Gravell]

Sorry - I forgot to say; to investigate how to link to stored
procedures, the easiest option is to edit a test file via the designer
and see what it does to the .dbml file.

Marc

[Andy]

On Apr 28, 4:44 pm, Marc Gravell <[e-mail]:

Sorry - I forgot to say; to investigate how to link to stored
procedures, the easiest option is to edit a test file via the designer
and see what it does to the .dbml file.

Hi,

I've been looking at the code the designer generates. I know what it
does to use SPs instead of direct updates, but I was hoping that
there'd be some way to automate all of that work. It basically
amounts to a private method with a specific name / signature, which in
turn calls whatever stored proc. There's some trickery to it though,
since you can't pass value types by reference and so temp variables
are declared and used to manually copy the values back and forth.

I guess there's nothing right now to easily automate what I want...
I'll have to think of something.

Thanks
Andy