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Disabling Pluralization in Visual Studio

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I noticed with some concern that the Visual Studio 2008 designer puts an “s” on the end of table names when it builds LINQ to SQL classes.  If you want to disable that, open Tools/Options, go to the Database Tools O/R Designer page, and change “Pluralization of names” option to false.

Note that if you have already generated pluralized classes, you have to force the designer to regenerate the classes by actually changing the names to some temporary value, build, then change them to what you really want and rebuild again.  Otherwise, if you leave the name the same, it assumes it doesn’t need to regenerate the classes.

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