First and foremost: the t4 templates are there for you to change as needed with SS3. That was the main idea with using T4 - I don't want to back you into my silliness :).
To the question at hand - I think this might be a bug in our templates that refuses to stick a value into the PK field:
ISqlQuery BuildInsertQuery(T item) {
ITable tbl = _db.FindTable(typeof(T).Name);
Insert query = null;
if (tbl != null) {
var hashed = item.ToDictionary();
query = new Insert(_db.Provider).Into<T>(tbl); ;
foreach (string key in hashed.Keys) {
IColumn col = tbl.GetColumn(key);
if (!col.IsPrimaryKey) {
query.Value(key, hashed[key]);
}
}
}
return query;
}
In this, our check should actually be...
if (!col.IsPrimaryKey && !col.AutoIncrement) {
query.Value(key, hashed[key]);
}
In this way, the non-identity will be inserted. But in reading your issue here, it sounds to me like you're not trying to insert into a non-identity.
The email you sent me doesn't say anything about PKs as identity - your PK was a thing called "NAme" which is a string type and not and identity (auto-increment).
I'm wondering about when I cannot get around this issue--when I have to add a new record to the database and have an identity as my primary key.
This is what SubSonic assumes - that your PK is an IDENTITY column. If you ONLY have an IDENTITY column, we can't help you because this is a deadlocked table in that you can't insert any value into it, therefor you can't tick the IDENTITY column. Your only recourse at this point is to SET IDENTITY INSERT="off", which defeats the purpose.
Hopefully this will answer your question? If I'm not getting it - can you do this for me:
- One sentence: what can't you do and what's the error
- What did you expect
Thanks Will and I hope I'm not being thick.
Best Answer
I don't see a link here but in general I'd say you can use SubSonic 3 in much the same way you can Linq to Sql. Here's some sample code:
http://subsonicproject.com/docs/Linq_Select_Queries
Other than that I'd need more specific examples.