Automatically create C# wrapper classes around stored procedures

Question

I\'ve inherited a rather large application that really could use some cleanup. There is data access code littered throughout the application. In code behinds, some in business l

Answer 1

dragging and dropping the stored procedures onto a dataset design surface (in .net 2.0 and higher) generates a wrapping function

but if you have a lot of them to do, you might be better off using or writing a simple code generator

two options for this:

1. generate the wrapping code yourself as C# classes/methods
2. generate a dataset.xsd file then open it in visual studio and let the designer generate the classes/methods for you

the latter can be maintained via the dataset design surface, but may be tricky to get generated right (the first time)