LINQ to SQL visualizer for VS 2010?

Question

I am trying to find a LINQ to SQL visualizer for Visual Studio 2010.

Anybody know of one somewhere?

When i was using vs 2008 i used this one.

But with vs 2010 it does not work.

I tried this one, but it didn't work either!

Is there a visual studio 2010 visualizer for Linq to SQL ?? thanks

The tools must be integrated in vs 2010.

Grimaud

Answer 1

After research i found this article and they talk we need to recompile the linq-to-sql visualizer with vs 2010 dll reference, and it's working very nicely.

So there is the solutions

Moreover while this meta language can express things more concisely, I guess they’ll be a range of scenarios where I’ll prefer to keep using C# 2008 Samples Expression Tree Visualizer (Expression Tree visualization through a Windows Form Tree) or Manuel Abadia Linq Expression Debugger Visualizer (Expression tree visualization through a graph). I noticed that both these addin doesn’t work as-is on VS 2010 and the trick I wanted to share here is that, to use them under VS 2010, you just need to recompile them by referencing the VS 2010 assembly Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll (found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ReferenceAssemblies\v2.0\Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll) instead of the VS 2008 assembly with the same name. This works like a charm with the C# 2008 Samples Expression Tree Visualize used in VS 2010 on .NET 4 and .NET 3.5 projects. I expect the same good result with the Manuel Abadia piece of code (but source code is not available here so I couldn’t recompile, Manuel can you do that?).

Grimaud

Answer 2

Have you tried LINQpad?

Bunkmate

I dont think this will work .. :-( LINQPad supports SQL Express, SQL 2000, SQL 2005, and (with some limitations) SQL 2008. I am not sure they have a visualizer tools for VS – Cannabin

@Cedric Brown - LinqPad fully supports SQL 2008. And I am pretty sure LinqPad will allow you to do everything the 'visualizer' in your link will do. – Officinal

Sorry, i talk about SQL ... I make a mistake, it's was about visual studio they say "If you have Visual Studio 2008 or Visual C# 2008 Express" – Cannabin

LINQPad doesn't integrate with Visual Studio, it's a standalone application, so you can use it without having to have VS installed at all; just a supported .NET Framework version. Although the tool is free, be aware that you don't get autocompletion without purchasing a license. I can tell you that purchasing a license is money well-spent. LINQPad is a must-have tool, and I think it pretty much killed that 2008 visualizer project. – Dominquedominquez

I need a integrated vs 2010 tool. – Cannabin