Question

I have been using LinqToSQL for quite a while as well as using Devart, for some projects. Are there any ORMs that will update with your DB schema?

I understand that most of these products are meant to be used when you DB schema is already nailed down, but I find that that’s in a perfect world, unfortunately, I don’t develop in one.

There are a number of ORM’s out there for .net developers (Entity Framework, DevArt, telerik OpenAccess, Etc.) most of which give you the ability to update your DAL by just a few clicks of your mouse. Like mentioned below, I am thinking that by scheduling a batch file to run every so many minutes or hours may be the best way to mimic Real-time updating.

Answer 1

In LINQ to SQL you can just recreate all tables and regenerate the model when the schema changes. This is actually quite convenient. You can recreate individual tables, too.