DatabaseTestService.GenerateData Method (String, Boolean, String, String)

Generates data to the specified database using the referenced data generation plan.

Namespace:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.UnitTesting
Assembly:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.UnitTesting (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.UnitTesting.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Protected Shared Sub GenerateData ( _
    dgenFileName As String, _
    clearDatabase As Boolean, _
    providerInvariantName As String, _
    connectionString As String _
)
'Usage
Dim dgenFileName As String
Dim clearDatabase As Boolean
Dim providerInvariantName As String
Dim connectionString As String

DatabaseTestService.GenerateData(dgenFileName, _
    clearDatabase, providerInvariantName, _
    connectionString)

protected static void GenerateData(
    string dgenFileName,
    bool clearDatabase,
    string providerInvariantName,
    string connectionString
)

protected:
static void GenerateData(
    String^ dgenFileName, 
    bool clearDatabase, 
    String^ providerInvariantName, 
    String^ connectionString
)

protected static function GenerateData(
    dgenFileName : String, 
    clearDatabase : boolean, 
    providerInvariantName : String, 
    connectionString : String
)

Parameters

• dgenFileName
  Type: System.String
  The data generator file used to populate the database.

• clearDatabase
  Type: System.Boolean
  If TRUE, the database is cleared before applying new data.

• providerInvariantName
  Type: System.String
  The database client provider that will be used to connect to the database. This must be System.Data.SqlClient.

• connectionString
  Type: System.String
  The connection string for the target database. This must be a connection string to a SQL database.

Remarks

This method generates data in the database project if the necessary information has been added to the app.config file using the classes provided in the Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.UnitTesting.Configuration namespace.

A privileged connection context is used to generate the data.

Permissions

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

See Also

Reference

DatabaseTestService Class

DatabaseTestService Members

GenerateData Overload

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.UnitTesting Namespace