Nathan Bridgewater

So a couple weeks ago I decided to test a few changes made to SubSonic3 that fixed a LINQ evaluation bug related to medium trust. Using a simple console app on linux/mono, I tested basic data access to a SQLite database using repository mode, and to my surprise it worked!

I’ve always been a big fan of SubSonic since its 2.0 version, which I used for a mid-sized e-commerce site. With a totally rewritten core, 3.0 uses LINQ (language integrated query) for all of its data access providing a great alternative to Dblinq for the Mono platform.

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These links might come in handy.  It’s the ADO.NET provider for iseries dB2 and has links to the VS Add Ins.   I think you need a login to download some of them.  And it says that they’re looking at a LINQ to iSeries provider via Entity Framework.

IBM .Net downloads

IBM .NET FAQ

To get a description of files, schemas, columns, you can use the views under QSYS2. I noticed some nice views that bring together the physical files and logical files.