Hi,

I have been toying around with an idea of creating a graphical query designer to create/edit predicate expressions. I am quite sure other have come up with this idea too? Comments anyone?

I found out that creating one wouldn't be that hard, with simple functionality, but it can get pretty complex pretty fast. Also, recreating the UI presentation of serialized predicate expression might be quite tricky also.

What I am after is something like visual studio team system query designer, only better (of course).

/sami

This would be VERY cool!!

Possibly have llblgen generate a query class or something that has all the visually designed queries ready for use?

The creation of such an editor isn't a walk in the park Sure, typing text isn't that hard, but it has to be compiled into an assembly, and the code has to be ran through a DQE and hte query has to be presented. It is on my todo list though. We've planned to do some tool development for llblgen pro after v2 is released and I've planned to look into a query tool in that timeframe. It can be a joined effort with a shared code-base in our subversion repository, I wouldn't mind.

That sounds extremely useful. I almost created soimething a while ago that converted some resaonably simple SQL statements into LLBL predicate code. Obviously what you're suiggesting is much more than that - with a nice flashy UI...sounds great!