IntroductionThis article demonstrates an interesting and very useful concept in LINQ-to-SQL.Question: What is creating and deleting database via LINQ-to-SQL?In simple terms "It provides the flexibility to create or delete data dynamically. The database can be created with a table as determined by user-defined requirements".Step 1: Create a new web applicationStep 2: Adding new LINQ-to-SQLStep 3: The complete code of DataClasses1.designer.cs is as in the following:#pragma warning disable 1591//------------------------------------------------------------------------------// <auto-generated>// This code was generated by a tool.// Runtime Version:4.0.30319.17929//// Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if// the code is regenerated.// </auto-generated>//------------------------------------------------------------------------------namespace Create_Delete_DB_LINQtoSQL{ using System.Data.Linq; using System.Data.Linq.Mapping; using System.Data; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Reflection; using System.Linq; using System.Linq.Expressions; using System.ComponentModel; using System; public partial class DataClasses1DataContext : System.Data.Linq.DataContext { public Table<Employee> Employees; private static System.Data.Linq.Mapping.MappingSource mappingSource = new AttributeMappingSource(); #region Extensibility Method Definitionspartial void OnCreated(); #endregion public DataClasses1DataContext(string connection): base(connection, mappingSource) { OnCreated(); } public DataClasses1DataContext(System.Data.IDbConnection connection): base(connection, mappingSource) { OnCreated(); } public DataClasses1DataContext(string connection, System.Data.Linq.Mapping.MappingSource mappingSource): base(connection, mappingSource) { OnCreated(); } public DataClasses1DataContext(System.Data.IDbConnection connection, System.Data.Linq.Mapping.MappingSource mappingSource): base(connection, mappingSource) { OnCreated(); } [Table(Name = "tblEmployee")] public class Employee { [Column(IsPrimaryKey = true)]public int Id; [Column]public string FirstName; [Column]public string LastName; [Column]public int Age; } }}#pragma warning restore 1591Step 4: The complete code of WebForm1.aspx is as in the following:<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="WebForm1.aspx.cs" Inherits="Create_Delete_DB_LINQtoSQL.WebForm1" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head id="Head1" runat="server"> <title></title></head><body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <center> <div> <table> <tr> <td colspan="4" align="center"> <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Create | Delete DB via LINQ-to-SQL" Font-Bold="true" Font-Size="Large" Font-Names="Verdana"ForeColor="Maroon"></asp:Label></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" align="center"> <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text="Please Enter DB Name" Font-Bold="true" Font-Names="Verdana"></asp:Label></td> <td colspan="3" align="center"> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"> <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Create DB" Font-Names="Verdana" Width="213px" BackColor="Orange" Font-Bold="True" OnClick="Button1_Click" /></td> <td colspan="2" align="center"> <asp:Button ID="Button2" runat="server" Text="Delete DB" Font-Names="Verdana" Width="213px" BackColor="Orange" Font-Bold="True" OnClick="Button2_Click" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" align="center"> <asp:Label ID="Label3" runat="server" Font-Bold="true" Font-Names="Verdana"></asp:Label></td> </tr> </table> </div> </center> </form></body></html>Step 5: The complete code of WebForm1.aspx.cs is as in the following:using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.Linq;using System.Web;using System.Web.UI;using System.Web.UI.WebControls;namespace Create_Delete_DB_LINQtoSQL{ public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { } protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox1.Text)) { Label3.Text = "Please Enter DB Name"; Label3.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red; } else { DataClasses1DataContext objContext = new DataClasses1DataContext(@"c:\" + TextBox1.Text + ".mdf"); objContext.CreateDatabase(); Label3.Text = "DB Creation Successful"; Label3.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green; TextBox1.Text = string.Empty; } } protected void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox1.Text)) { Label3.Text = "Please Enter DB Name"; Label3.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red; } else { DataClasses1DataContext objContext = new DataClasses1DataContext(@"c:\" + TextBox1.Text + ".mdf"); objContext.DeleteDatabase(); Label3.Text = "DB Deletion Successful"; Label3.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green; TextBox1.Text = string.Empty; } } }}Step 6: The output of the application is as in the following:Step 7: The created database output of the application is as in the following:Step 8: The deleted database output of the application is as in the following:I hope this article was useful for you.
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