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Microsoft BLINQ

Does Microsoft hate developers :) Check out BLINQ and you would get that feeling yourself [pun intended].

  • Blinq is a tool for generating ASP.NET websites for displaying, creating, and manipulating data based on database schema.
  • All one needs to do is to point Blinq to a SQL database and it will create a website for you!
  • The website would contains pages that display sorted and paged data, allow you to update or delete records, create new records, and follow relationships between tables in your database.
  • You don't need to write SQL queries to use Blinq; LINQ will generate optimized queries for you that request just the data you want to show.
Reqirement:
  • Blinq 1.0 requires VS 2005 Standard Edition or higher, or Visual Web Developer 2005 Express,
  • SQL Server 2000 SP4, 2005 SP1, or Express SP1.
  • You must install the LINQ May 2006 Community Technical Preview before running the BlinqSetup.msi. The installer creates a \Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\Blinq folder, which contains DLLs for the project's \bin folder, and adds BrowserFiles and ThemeFiles subfolders.
  • IIS 5.0+ on the test machine is optional.
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Anonymous said…
Vadivel,
This is really interesting. But looks like it gives auto coding for basic functionalities. but we spend most of our initial time in these type of tasks :-) anyway did u try this out personally. wld like to see this auto generated appln at ur leisure
12:18 PM, June 29, 2006
Anonymous said…
Intersting!!!
And Vadivel, is it not mandatory to have IIS?
I'm just wondering how it will create pages without a web server. If thats the case will the pages reside in a remote web server.
Or, it could be a windows app which will just have windows forms which will do the same functionality as web pages?
--Siva
10:51 AM, July 04, 2006
Dhina said…
I cannot run blinq on visual studio 2008 express edition.

it gives me this error:
Error: May Linq CTP is not installed or configured correctly. You can download i
t from http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/linq/
If you are running Blinq from a command window, close it and open a new one afte
r installing the Linq Preview.

if i try to install linq preview, it is asking for visual studio 2005.

wont it run in vs 2008?
5:53 PM, August 01, 2007
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