Really stupid question, sorry, but I can't find it on google (I'm sure it's in a screencast or something somewhere). I have a DBML (linq2sql classes) diagram and I've changed the underlying database. In VS2008, how do I "refresh" the diagram? There's no View-->Refresh or RightClick->Refresh or Update option.
As it stands now, I have to recreate the entire linq2sql classes every time I update the underlying db.
right click and select "run custom tool" (in solution explorer on dbml file)
If you want to bring database changes into your DBML diagram then you can:
a) remove the changed entities from the designer diagram and re-drag them. You will lose any customizations (e.g. class and property name changes etc).
b) manually update the diagram, adding/removing classes, member properties, etc.
c) Use a third party tool capable of comparing and updating the DBML file with the underlying database. One such tool is my add-in, Huagati DBML/EDMX Tools. It adds a bunch of features to the L2S designer in VS2008 and VS2010, including update/sync, comparison, mass-renaming, name rule enforcement, documentation from extended properties/indexes/etc, multiple 'views' per dbml diagram etc.