Multiple foreign keys to the same table

Question

I have a reference table with all sorts of controlled value lookup data for gender, address type, contact type, etc. Many tables have multiple foreign keys to this reference tab

Answer 1

The current ms tooling for LINQ is some what limited and it doesn't really look like much effort will be coming for vs 2010. You can write your own code generator, look at Damien's t4 templates or PLINQO. I have also found EDMDesigner which might be worth a look.