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Asked: 2026-05-20T07:55:07+00:00

I’m trying to build a web application that let the administrator talk to the

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I’m trying to build a web application that let the administrator talk to the database through C# and add new tables and columns to fit his requirements (sort of a very simple database studio) but I’m not trying to just create some spaghetti application.

So I’m trying to figure out how to let those things dynamically (automatically) when he creates a table and use the table to build them :

1- The business objects or entities (the classes, it’s objects and properties).
2- The Data access layer (some simple methods that connects to the database and add, update, delete retrieve items (objects)).

Is this possible ? any pointers on how to achieve it ?

EDIT

just opened your link!! .. it’s talking about the data bound controls and stuff! .. my question is way more advanced than that!.
when you build an N-Layered application you start with the database schema and implementation and it’s easy to do programtically then you start building the DAL classes which (add, edit, etc in other words the CRUD operations) in and form this database

what I want to do is to allow the web administrator to choose add the new table through my application and then -dynamically- the application would take the tables names and columns as parameters and create new classes and define within them the CRUD methods that will implement the SQL CRUD operations

then it would also create dynamically the classes and define within them the variables, properties and methods to call and use the DAL methods .. all this based on the table, column names

NOTE : All this happens on the run-time!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sometime back I had also asked similar question on SO. I got only one reply.

    Today I was digging some information on MSDN and as I had guessed it, MS CRM entity model works based on metadata. So basically whatever a CRM developer is working against is just metadata, they are not real objects as such. Following is the MSDN link.

    Extend MS CRM Metadata and here is the MS CRM 4.0 SDK.

    I hope this should get you started.

    Update: Recently hit upon Visual Studio LightSwitch. I think this is what we wanted to build. A UI which will pick up table information from DB and then create all CRUD screens. VS LightSwitch is in its Beta1 and has quite a lot of potential. Should be a nice starting point.

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