Comments on: Planning LightSpeed 3.0 – what do you want?

By: MiddleTommy

MiddleTommy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:01:02 +0000

I would love to see update/save of single entities.

like
unitofwork.Update(MyEntity);

where all changes are saved to the database from an entity and its relations.

And even a
unitofwork.PullUpdate(MyEntity);

where all changes in the database to an entity and its relations are applied to local object

Thanks for a great product

By: MiddleTommy

MiddleTommy — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:28:14 +0000

Since LightSpeed is advancing to .NET 3.5 you could and a private notification of property changing. In model designer have an option for Notification (None|Both|Before|After). Then depending on the selection have partial methods in the generated class that are called before a property changes (with cancel support would be great), after a property changes or both. This may eliminate the need for the Generated option. But both would be great.

By: MiddleTommy

MiddleTommy — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:23:00 +0000

well It would be usefull to go to the generated code when you are changing an item from Generated to FieldOnly. Then you could copy the code and paste it somewhere else as a starting point. Maybe a “Make Non-Generated” or “Make Editable” would be a better option that would “move” the generated code to the non-generated partial class and set its generated option to Field-Only

going to the non-generated partial class would be awesome too.

By: Ivan Towlson

Ivan Towlson — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:14:59 +0000

Could you say a bit more about the use case for “Go to Code”? Although it’s useful to be able to look at the generated code, we don’t want to put up big signposts inviting people to open the generated code file, because it tempts them to edit it, which inevitably leads to disappointment when their changes get overwritten. (A shortcut for opening/creating a partial class for an entity might be handy though.)

By: MiddleTommy

MiddleTommy — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:19:12 +0000

When you right click on an entity, property, association, etc… you have a Goto Code option that takes you to your selection in the code file

By: Ivan Towlson

Ivan Towlson — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:46:51 +0000

MiddleTommy – custom using/imports statements will be in the 14 May nightly build, available from about 1430 GMT. Open the “LightSpeed Model” window (View > Other Windows > LightSpeed Model), right-click the model icon and choose Add Imported Namespace. Hope this helps, and please let us know in the forums if you run into any problems.

By: MiddleTommy

MiddleTommy — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:36:20 +0000

ability to add “using” or “import” statements on top of LS generated code (Needed for custom attributes in different library)

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:30:05 +0000

The possibility to enable/disable Triggers.
(Im missing this in linq2sql/linqtoentities)

By: MiddleTommy

MiddleTommy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:13:53 +0000

bool Transient (Temporary) property on Entity base class preventing creation or update to database.

By: Joe Freeman

Joe Freeman — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:14:09 +0000

Multi-valued attribute support for SimpleDB would be great.