Presentation - Sydney .NET User Group - LINQ to SQL and WCF

Today I presented at the Sydney .NET User Group. The topic was using LINQ to SQL with WCF in a three tiered architecture.

It was quite a good turn out and I had lots of good audience feedback during the session. Thank you to all those who attended the session. I hope you all found it useful.

Resources

• Slide deck
• Solution Files
• Northwind sample database

Comments

[Eric Phan]

Hi Dasco,

> Just curious - does this work for child entities of Customer? E.g. if a new Customer was created, as well as a child entity such as say an Order before this line is run, would it work?

This should work

> I noticed that you have WCF serialization attributes on your generated entity classes

If you set the /serialization:unidirectional flag in SQL metal it will add the WCF attributes.

If you need bidirectional support, I suggest you look at LINQ to SQL T4 templates on codeplex - www.codeplex.com/l2st4