LINQExtender

Project Description
LinqExtender is a container for creating custom LINQ providers without knowing anything of how expression is parsed or processed and focusing on only the business logic. It separates the domain from language implemenations and gets you up and ready in no time.



Getting Started
Download the DevelopmentPack.zip to get going for building custom providers. Dont forget to take a look at the readme.txt.

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.

Build framework : .NET 3.5

IDE Environment
Visual Studio 2008, Express or Better

News
Current extender version : 2.1

Please check out the gettting started documentation under release page.

Reference

1. LINQ.Flickr is already created with LinqExtender api, you may want to check that out at http://www.codeplex.com/LINQFlickr

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.