Chapter 11. Customizing Entity Persistence and Adding Business Logic
The LINQ to SQL designer, which is also known as the Object Relational Designer, and SqlMetal help you by generating classes and mapping from a database. The generated code targets the most common and standard way to persist objects and is not meant to be modified. However, it includes mechanisms for customizing how the objects are retrieved, modified, and persisted. It also provides easy extensibility for the addition of business logic. Finally, the generated code is only one way to use the LINQ to SQL runtime libraries. You can also write your own classes and specify mapping external to the classes if you want to. In this chapter we will look at the common ways to customize ...
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