How to generate BlToolkit model

Question

From what I have seen on the ormbattle.net, BlToolkit is the fastest ORM for .NET. I would like to test it in one of my projects, but I don't know how to generate entity classes. Should I do this by hand? I have 20+ tables in the database.

Is there any online tutorial or blog, where I can find more information about BlToolkit? It looks like a library with great potential without community behind it.

Answer 1

you can use our project on bltoolkit code generation:

http://sogen.codeplex.com/

Answer 2

There are the following options:

1. T4 templates are available for some databases - http://www.bltoolkit.net/Doc.T4Templates.ashx

2. MyGeneration and template for BLToolkit.

3. Classes generated for Linq 2 SQL. BLToolkit can use L2S metadata.