Background
Most of the systems I have worked on are Database First applications. Either the team or SQL experts define the database first – or it has existed for years – and then we build code to use it.
When you point the tooling at the database, ORM tools, such as Entity Framework and EFCore, generate models for you. However, what do you do when you want to have POCOs for your model? You could hand code each model; you could use a tool like CodeSmith to generate the models, or you could do something like the SQL below and roll your own: –
Code
declare @TableName sysname = 'Address'
declare @Result varchar(max) = 'public class ' + @TableName + '
{'
select @Result = @Result + '
public ' + ColumnType + NullableSign + ' ' + ColumnName + ' { get; set; }'
from
(
select
replace(col.name, ' ', '_') ColumnName,
column_id ColumnId,
case typ.name
when 'bigint' then 'long'
when 'binary' then 'byte[]'
when 'bit' then 'bool'
when 'char' then 'string'
when 'date' then 'DateTime'
when 'datetime' then 'DateTime'
when 'datetime2' then 'DateTime'
when 'datetimeoffset' then 'DateTimeOffset'
when 'decimal' then 'decimal'
when 'float' then 'float'
when 'image' then 'byte[]'
when 'int' then 'int'
when 'money' then 'decimal'
when 'nchar' then 'char'
when 'ntext' then 'string'
when 'numeric' then 'decimal'
when 'nvarchar' then 'string'
when 'real' then 'double'
when 'smalldatetime' then 'DateTime'
when 'smallint' then 'short'
when 'smallmoney' then 'decimal'
when 'text' then 'string'
when 'time' then 'TimeSpan'
when 'timestamp' then 'DateTime'
when 'tinyint' then 'byte'
when 'uniqueidentifier' then 'Guid'
when 'varbinary' then 'byte[]'
when 'varchar' then 'string'
else 'UNKNOWN_' + typ.name
end ColumnType,
case
when col.is_nullable = 1 and typ.name in ('bigint', 'bit', 'date', 'datetime', 'datetime2', 'datetimeoffset', 'decimal', 'float', 'int', 'money', 'numeric', 'real', 'smalldatetime', 'smallint', 'smallmoney', 'time', 'tinyint', 'uniqueidentifier')
then '?'
else ''
end NullableSign
from sys.columns col
join sys.types typ on
col.system_type_id = typ.system_type_id AND col.user_type_id = typ.user_type_id
where object_id = object_id(@TableName)
) t
order by ColumnId
set @Result = @Result + '
}'
print @Result
