This project is a work in progress.

SQLProvider generates classes that depend upon netstandard-System.Data.Linq which is a package for dot net core that is an unofficial port of Linq-To-Sql for core.

The project is a C#9 source generator, to use it you must reference it as an analyser from the project using it like in the csproj example below:

<PropertyGroup>
  <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
  <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
</PropertyGroup>

<ItemGroup>
  <PackageReference Include="netstandard-System.Data.Linq" Version="1.0.1" />
</ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup>
  <ProjectReference Include="{project refernce...}" ReferenceOutputAssembly="false" OutputItemType="Analyzer" />
</ItemGroup>

Upon building you will have in your project a new namespace CSharp.Data.Sql, in adding a using you will be able to reference some classes and attributes used in creating a new SQLProvider.

To create a new SQLProvider you must create a new partial class which inherits from SqlDataProvider, this class must also have an attribute added to it called ConnectionSet which has two properties ConnectionString and DatabaseType. These settings are used at build time to connect to a database and extend your partial class.

The class must also not have a constructor with a single string as a parameter as this is created in the generated code at build time.

See the code below as an example in creating a SQLProvider:

[ConnectionSet(ConnectionString = "MyConnectionString", DatabaseType = DatabaseType.MsSqlServer)]
public partial class MyNewProvider : SqlDataProvider
{}

The connection string for the moment must be hard coded, however when using the generated code a new constructor allows you pass in a run time connection string which can come from anywhere.

At the moment only windows and SQLServer is supported.