Start with a database in my situation XE on localhost.
C:\>sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
SQL> create user linq identified by linq;
User created.
SQL> grant connect,resource to linq;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> connect linq/linq
Connected.
SQL> create table degrees
2 (
3 degkey number primary key
4 ,degdate date
5 ,degcelcius number
6 )
7 /
Table created.
SQL>
Download the dblinq library from : http://code2code.net/DB_Linq/
or get the latest via svn which has VisualMetal:
svn checkout http://dblinq2007.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
Goto the directory and do the following to build the oracle libraries:
cd DbLinq.Oracle
msbuild
This will build the DbLinq.dll and DbLinq.Oracle.dll in bin\Debug
cd DbMetal
msbuild
This will build the DbMetal tool which creates the database to objects mapper classes. Ignore the copy errors at the end, it works without the copying because the oracle assemblies are in the GAC. DbMetal is created in the bin directory.
Run the command to create the mapper classes.
dbmetal /provider:oracle /conn:”Data Source=XE;User Id=linq;Password=linq;” /database=linq /code:linq.cs
create a new working directory (c:\dotnet\oracle) and copy the linq.cs, DbLinq.dll and DbLinq.Oracle.dll to this directory.
Create the test program oracletest.cs:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using DbLinq.Linq.Mapping;
using System.Data.OracleClient;
class OracleTest
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string connStr = “User Id=linq;Password=linq;Data Source=XE”;
Linq db = new Linq(new OracleConnection(connStr)); // Linq is the mapperclass created with DbMetal
Console.WriteLine(“Select and delete all temperatures:”);
var q1 = from p in db.Degrees select p;
//db.Degrees.RemoveAll(q1); // Not implemented 
Console.WriteLine(“Fired sql:”);
Console.WriteLine(db.GetQueryText(q1));
Console.WriteLine(“Result:”);
foreach (var v in q1)
{
Console.WriteLine(v.DEGKey + ” – ” + v.DEGDate + ” – ” + v.DEGCeLcIUs); // For some reason DbMetal makes a very cryptic property name
db.Degrees.DeleteOnSubmit(v);
}
db.SubmitChanges();
Console.WriteLine(“——”);
Console.WriteLine(“Select temperatures (none):”);
var q2 = from p in db.Degrees select p;
Console.WriteLine(“Fired sql:”);
Console.WriteLine(db.GetQueryText(q2));
Console.WriteLine(“Result:”);
Console.WriteLine(“DEGKEY – DEGDATE – DEGCELCIUS”);
foreach (var v in q2)
{
Console.WriteLine(v.DEGKey + ” – ” + v.DEGDate + ” – ” + v.DEGCeLcIUs); // For some reason DbMetal makes a very cryptic property name
}
Console.WriteLine(“——”);
Console.WriteLine(“Insert temperature 1:”);
Degrees a = new Degrees();
a.DEGKey = 1;
a.DEGDate = System.DateTime.Now;
a.DEGCeLcIUs = 1;
db.Degrees.InsertOnSubmit(a);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
Console.WriteLine(“Insert temperature 2:”);
Degrees b = new Degrees();
b.DEGKey = 2;
b.DEGDate = System.DateTime.Now;
b.DEGCeLcIUs = 2;
db.Degrees.InsertOnSubmit(b);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
Console.WriteLine(“Insert temperature 3:”);
Degrees c = new Degrees();
c.DEGKey = 3;
c.DEGDate = System.DateTime.Now;
c.DEGCeLcIUs = 3;
db.Degrees.InsertOnSubmit(c);
db.SubmitChanges();
Console.WriteLine(“——”);
Console.WriteLine(“Select all temperatures:”);
var q3 = from p in db.Degrees select p;
Console.WriteLine(“Fired sql:”);
Console.WriteLine(db.GetQueryText(q3));
Console.WriteLine(“Result:”);
Console.WriteLine(“DEGKEY – DEGDATE – DEGCELCIUS”);
foreach (var v in q3)
{
Console.WriteLine(v.DEGKey + ” – ” + v.DEGDate + ” – ” + v.DEGCeLcIUs); // For some reason DbMetal makes a very cryptic property name
}
Console.WriteLine(“——”);
Console.WriteLine(“Select all temperatures higher than 1 and add 5 to these:”);
var q4 = from p in db.Degrees where p.DEGCeLcIUs>1 select p;
Console.WriteLine(“Fired sql:”);
Console.WriteLine(db.GetQueryText(q4));
Console.WriteLine(“Result:”);
Console.WriteLine(“DEGKEY – DEGDATE – DEGCELCIUS”);
foreach (var v in q4)
{
Console.WriteLine(v.DEGKey + ” – ” + v.DEGDate + ” – ” + v.DEGCeLcIUs); // For some reason DbMetal makes a very cryptic property name
}
foreach (var v in q4)
{
v.DEGCeLcIUs+=5;
}
db.SubmitChanges();
Console.WriteLine(“——”);
Console.WriteLine(“Select all temperatures:”);
var q5 = from p in db.Degrees select p;
Console.WriteLine(“Fired sql:”);
Console.WriteLine(db.GetQueryText(q5));
Console.WriteLine(“Result:”);
Console.WriteLine(“DEGKEY – DEGDATE – DEGCELCIUS”);
foreach (var v in q5)
{
Console.WriteLine(v.DEGKey + ” – ” + v.DEGDate + ” – ” + v.DEGCeLcIUs); // For some reason DbMetal makes a very cryptic property name
}
Console.WriteLine(“——”);
}
}
Compile and run:
csc /r:dblinq.dll,dblinq.oracle.dll *.cs
oracletest:
Select and delete all temperatures:
Fired sql:
SELECT p$.DEGCELCIUS, p$.DEGDATE, p$.DEGKEY
FROM LINQ.DEGREES p$
Result:
1 - 5/22/2008 7:07:48 PM - 1
2 - 5/22/2008 7:07:53 PM - 2
3 - 5/22/2008 7:07:58 PM - 3
------
Select temperatures (none):
Fired sql:
SELECT p$.DEGCELCIUS, p$.DEGDATE, p$.DEGKEY
FROM LINQ.DEGREES p$
Result:
DEGKEY - DEGDATE - DEGCELCIUS
------
Insert temperature 1:
Insert temperature 2:
Insert temperature 3:
------
Select all temperatures:
Fired sql:
SELECT p$.DEGCELCIUS, p$.DEGDATE, p$.DEGKEY
FROM LINQ.DEGREES p$
Result:
DEGKEY - DEGDATE - DEGCELCIUS
1 - 5/22/2008 7:10:14 PM - 1
2 - 5/22/2008 7:10:19 PM - 2
3 - 5/22/2008 7:10:24 PM - 3
------
Select all temperatures higher than 1 and add 5 to these:
Fired sql:
SELECT p$.DEGCELCIUS, p$.DEGDATE, p$.DEGKEY
FROM LINQ.DEGREES p$ WHERE p$.DEGCELCIUS > 1
Result:
DEGKEY - DEGDATE - DEGCELCIUS
2 - 5/22/2008 7:10:19 PM - 2
3 - 5/22/2008 7:10:24 PM - 3
------
Select all temperatures:
Fired sql:
SELECT p$.DEGCELCIUS, p$.DEGDATE, p$.DEGKEY
FROM LINQ.DEGREES p$
Result:
DEGKEY - DEGDATE - DEGCELCIUS
1 - 5/22/2008 7:10:14 PM - 1
2 - 5/22/2008 7:10:19 PM - 7
3 - 5/22/2008 7:10:24 PM - 8
------
Have fun…
. Also the hash of the assembly will be different so all assemblies referencing this assembly have to be recompiled. In short words: You can’t alter a signed assembly.