Code for Rapid C# Windows Development eBook + LINQPad and Data Tools

Project Description

The worked example in Joseph Chancellor’s book Rapid C# Windows Development which uses LLBLGen Pro to connect to the Adventure Works sample database.
It also contains an Enumerable Debugger Visualizer, some LINQPad Extensions and Tools and a few Controls.

The book, published in February 2006 about 'Quickly Build Robust, Database-Driven Applications', along with the code is a great introduction into performing common tasks in Database-Driven Applications, however it was written with version 1.X of LLBLGen Pro so I have updated it to work with the later versions (2.6, 3.0 and 3.1). At the same time I wanted to use this code as a starting point for evaluating LINQ To LLBLGen so I have converted all of the queries to use LINQ (but kept the originals for comparison).

Book source code details

Additional controls and tools contained in this project

•  LINQPad Extensions and Tools

• • Custom Visualizer for editing and persisting the results of a LINQ query or any other Enumerable.
  • Enumerable DataEditor for editing and persisting the results of a LINQ query or any Enumerable.
  • HierarchyEditor for displaying and editing Adjacency List(self referencing) data.
  • Static LLBLGen Pro Data Context Driver to show LLBLGen Pro generated entities in the Schema Explorer.
  • Entity Data Browser to browse, view and edit LLBLGen Pro entities from a database.

• Enumerable Debugger Visualizer.
• Object Inspector for browsing the properties of an object and any objects it references.

• Controls
  • DataTreeView. An enhanced version of a Databound TreeView control.
  • GridDataEditor. A paged DataGridView is a user control containing a DataGridView and two BindingNavigator’s, one for the data and one for the pages.
  • QueryRunner. A query runner user control (poor man's version of LINQPad).

To do

• Finish the employee organization structure editor (FrmOrganizationStructure).
• Improve the paging in the LINQPad DataEditor.

Background
Acknowledgements, credits and attributions

Links

http://www.lulu.com/josephchancellor
http://josephchancellor.wordpress.com
http://www.llblgen.com
http://www.linqpad.net

Thanks to Joseph Chancellor for writing the book and making the code available for this project