ASP.Net MVC: Best Practices for dbml files

Question

This may just be a yes or no type of question but here goes anyway...

From all (well most) of the examples that I\'ve seen for using mvc, it appears that method for

Answer 1

Personally I prefer to create the classes/association in the .dbml and then generate the database from that.

Just add the following class to your project

partial class MyDataContext {
    partial void OnCreated() {
        if (!DatabaseExists())
            CreateDatabase();
        }
}