Overview

Blinq is a tool for generating ASP.NET websites for displaying, creating, and manipulating data based on database schema. Just point Blinq at a SQL database and it will create a website with 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.

Blinq uses the May LINQ Community Tech Preview to access data. The code Blinq creates is simple and easy to customize to fit your needs. Everything in the website Blinq creates is meant as a starting point for a website that meets your needs perfectly, so have fun customizing the pages, experimenting with the code, and making it yours!

Features

The Blinq tool autogenerates web forms from database schema which enable the following by default:

• Select, insert, update, and delete functionality
• Details and foreign key navigation
• Sorting and Pagination of records
• A default style and design which provide a consistent layout

Requirements

• May 2006 LINQ CTP
• One of the following Visual Studio / Express SKUs:
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition or higher
  • Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
• English-language versions of both Windows and Visual Studio/Visual Web Developer are recommended. The Blinq Prototype has not been tested on other platforms.

Please Note:

• Blinq requires the May LINQ Community Tech Preview to run correctly. More details regarding the LINQ project and download information can be found here.
• LINQ does not support running in partial trust and does not have a 'Go Live' license.
• Microsoft Blinq is an unsupported tool but you may obtain help from the community and members of the product team in the Blinq Preview Forum