LINQExtender

Project Description
LinqExtender is a toolkit for creating custom LINQ providers without knowing anything of how expression is parsed or processed and focusing on only the business logic. You just need to extend its query class , declare the query object and override some methods to put your logic and its done.



Getting Started
Download the Development-Pack.zip to get going for building custom providers.

Development Pack-contains

1. VSI installer that will create an extender startup project.
2. LinqExtender.dll , if you want to do things on your own.
3. Example custom provider, which is OpenLinqToSql ORM that works with Sql server.

Note: visual studio project template is installed under documents/Visual Studio 2008/Templates/ProjectTemplates folder.

Target framework : .net 3.5

IDE Environment
Visual Studio 2008, Express or Better

News
Current extender version : 1.4

Please check out Features wiki page

Reference

1. LINQ.Flickr is already created with LinqExtender api, you may want to check that out at http://www.codeplex.com/LINQFlickr
2. How to create custom provider with LinqExtender at http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/csharp/CreatingCustomLINQProviderUsingLinqExtender.aspx

To get more idea about LINQ providers, you can also check my blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/mehfuzh, where i tried to make couple of posts regarding LINQ providers.

RoadMap
Complex query support for ex. Join (Natural and automatic)
Mono 2.0 support for Linux and Mac users.


Last Updated Features Page on August 2008