Hi Lee,
   I assumed by that point in Blox the reader should be familiar with needing to change the objects within the DBML file from Auto to a specific type for the code to work correctly. However, thanks for clarifing that for anyone that may be having a problem.

-Doug

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That's what I figured, but it may not be that obvious to some folks.

By the way, I am currently working on an alternative approach to LINQ-ifying the BeerHouse, and will welcome your comments on it. :)

No problem, I would love to see them! =]

-Doug

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Do you guys recommend going through some other, more basic LINQ tutorials, before sinking teeth into Doug's Blox for TBH?

Will there be a LINQ to Entities WroxBlox for the BeerHouse coming? What about TBH to NHibernate? :-)

Alex

Not really. It's pretty basic stuff, and the way Doug presents it makes it very easy to understand and follow.

As Lee has already pointed out most, if not all, of the examples in the Blox are very basic and straightforward so, to that end, you should not have any problem following the examples. Of course, if you do, you can always post here and I can assist you with any problems you might be having.

In so far as a L2E or NHibernate version of this Blox, I can not say as Jim ultimately makes that decision. As I said throughout this thread: I would not be opposed to writing another article on some of the topics that have come up as a result of this Blox but I just wrapped on another Wrox project and am looking forward to a tiny amount of R&R!

-Doug

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Okay then. I just posted [u]LINQ-ifying TheBeerHouse - An Alternate Approach</u> here:

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=71254

I made it a new topic, as it's fairly lengthy.

Hi :

I just downloaded the Migrating to LINQ to SQL in TheBeerHouse and ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming Problem Design Solution
book, and the first thing I tried to do was to paste that code on page 6 where he states:

"...you must also add a new section for TheBeerHouse to run correctly with LINQ. Open up
web.config and add the following code after the closing </system.net> tag:"

I don't have a <system.net> in my web.config file. (I'm still in chapter two of the main book. Maybe a system.net tag is added later?) So where do I put that?

Rachel

I don't have the exact web.config on me that I used for that blox but, if memory serves me, the <system.net> section in the TBH web.config was simply the last section within the <configuration> which is why I worded the blox as I did.

Nevertheless, as long as the section within the blox is added to the <configuration> section of the web.config you should be ok. Bare in mind that these changes need to live in their own part of the web.config and not inside of another section. So, for example, this would cause an error:


this would be correct


hth.
-Doug

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thanks

Rachel