Phase 1 / Generating the classes of the Business Logic Layer

/* ------------------------------------------------
 * Describes the Entity class for: Category
 * Classes:
 *    Category - Entity class. Edit it for validation and to customize metadata at runtime
 *    CategoryMetadata - Entity Metadata class. It contains the DataAnnotations.
 *    CategoryDAO - BLD DataAccessObject format version of a Data Access Object.
 *    
 * Requires .net 4.0 and these references:
 *    System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations
 *    PeterBlum.DES
 *    PeterBlum.DES.DataAnnotations
 * Generated: 7/8/2011 4:17:08 PM
 * ------------------------------------------------*/

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using PeterBlum.DES.DAO.Attributes;
using PeterBlum.DES.DAO.EntityDAO;
// Some members of this namespace have identical names to those in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations
// making it easy to switch from one to the other by adding the "DESDA." prefix
using DESDA = PeterBlum.DES.DataAnnotations;

namespace PeterBlum.InitialEntities
{
   // --- ENTITY CLASS --------------------------------------------------
   /// <summary>
   /// Entity class. Edit it for validation and to customize metadata at runtime
   /// </summary>
   [EntityDAOType(typeof(CategoryDAO))]
   [MetadataType(typeof(CategoryMetadata))]
   public partial class Category
   {
   }  // class Category

   // --- ENTITY METADATA --------------------------------------------------
   /// <summary>
   /// Entity Metadata class.
   /// Companion to the Category Entity class that contains the DataAnnotations
   /// on properties with the same names as those in the actual Entity class.
   /// These properties do not require their types to match those in the Entity class.
   /// An Entity Metadata class allows the Entity class to be regenerated without
   /// overwriting DataAnnotations.
   /// </summary>
   public class CategoryMetadata
   {

   }  // class CategoryMetadata

   // --- BLD DATAACCESSOBJECT  --------------------------------------------------
   /// <summary>
   /// BLD DataAccessObject class for the Category Entity class.
   /// It provides CRUD actions. The parent class already has default
   /// methods for Update(), Insert(), Delete() and several queries.
   /// </summary>
   /// <remarks>
   /// <para>For documentation, see the BLD DataAccessObject section of the Business Logic User's Guide.</para>
   /// </remarks>
   [TableName("Categories")]
   public class CategoryDAO : LINQtoSQLEntityDAO<Category>
   {
      public CategoryDAO() : base(typeof(NorthWindDataContext)) { }
      public CategoryDAO(object pDataContext) : base(pDataContext) { }

   }  // class CategoryDAO

}