When I make a database change, how do I know what needs to be removed and readded to the LinqToSql O/R Designer in Visual Studio?

Question

For example, I alter a column in a table to be not null from null.

I need to then delete and readd the table. That part is pretty clear.

What about views, f

Answer 1

It seems you are putting a lot of business logic into your SQL DB rather than keeping it in the app itself. Try adopting a more DDD approach with a Domain Model - this should move much of the work those SPs and Views from the db are doing back into the application where they belong. Then your db should only be for persisting data and hence changed to tables should only require a very small amount of time in the L2S designer to make updates.