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I'm trying to find and create/import the Northwind database to practice my Linq-fu. I cannot find it for the life of me, searching just turns me to this page, which in turn tells me to find it on the official page which isn't there. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227484%28v=vs.90%29.aspx Where can I find the Northwind database? Northwind doesn't come installed with SQL Server 2008. You can instead: download scripts for creating the Northwind and pubs sample databases . download Northwind and pubs MDF/LDF from Microsoft . The article is titled "SQL Server 2000 Sample Databases". They

I've been attempting to walk through the "Creating a Data Access Layer" tutorial found http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/tutorial-01-cs.aspx I create the DB connection, create the typed dataset and table adapter, specify the sql, etc. When I add the code to the presentation layer (in this case a page called AllProducts.aspx) I am unable to find the NorthwindTableAdapters.ProductsTableAdapter class. I tried to import the NorthwindTableAdapters namespace, but it is not showing up. Looking in the solution explorer Class View confirms that there is a Northwind class, but not the namespace I'm

I have just downloaded sharparchitecture/Northwind and i'm trying to get crud scaffolding to work. I have changed nothing except adding missing reference to this class library. I try to run ScaffoldingGeneratorCommand.tt and I hit following 3 errors. Error 1 Compiling transformation: Invalid token 'this' in class, struct, or interface member declaration file:BaseTemplate.tt Error 2 Compiling transformation: Class, struct, or interface method must have a return type file:BaseTemplate.tt Error 3 Compiling transformation: Type expected file:BaseTemplate.tt Compiler says they occur in the first

I need some test data for a MySQL utility that I am creating. Does anybody know where I can find one that has a similiar (if not more) amount of data as Northwind for SQL Server? UPDATE: This is an answer for about 4 years ago and links were dead because of time, I'll put new links as soon as I find some. 1- FlightStats 2- MySql Version of NW schema (InnoDB) 3- MySql Version of NW schema (MyISAM) 4- more info and a suggestion from mindplay.dk: 5- Northwind (schema+data, as provided by mnk below) You may download it from here: http://dev.wavemaker.com/forums/?q=node/4721 One option would be to