My entities defined in the designer are singular names and I see that LLBLGen is generating plurals for their DbSet collections in the generated DataContext class. However, some of the plural forms are incorrect grammar and I'd like to fix that.

How do I override the default plural form of singular entity names in the designer so that generated code uses the plural names I want?

I'm using v4.2 Final (Feb 16 2015).

Emmanuel wrote:

My entities defined in the designer are singular names and I see that LLBLGen is generating plurals for their DbSet collections in the generated DataContext class. However, some of the plural forms are incorrect grammar and I'd like to fix that.

How do I override the default plural form of singular entity names in the designer so that generated code uses the plural names I want?

I'm using v4.2 Final (Feb 16 2015).

I thought I'd found the solution (click "New sequence..." in the entity's "Field Mappings" tab. But when I generate code, it still uses the default plural name.

Hi Emmanuel,

If the pluralization of collections doesn't suits you, you could just rename those navigators individually in the LLBLGen Designer. The pluralization will run again for new elements, not for the one you just renamed.

If you want to totally disable the pluralization plugin's event, you can do it as well, this is how.

You could even download the SourceCode package from the LLBLGen's Customer section and modify the Singularization/PlurarizationPluglin to your needs (adding additional grammar exceptions, for instance).

daelmo wrote:

If the pluralization of collections doesn't suits you, you could just rename those navigators individually in the LLBLGen Designer. The pluralization will run again for new elements, not for the one you just renamed.

But how do I rename them at the top-level? In other words, the ones that result in the generation of DbSet<TEntity> properties of the generated DataContext?

(Also, just discovered another pluralisation issue. See http://www.llblgen.com/TinyForum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=23328)

The pluralization is done through the plugin. If some names aren't pluralized properly, I'd look at the plugin source (it's shipped with the sourcecode archive, available in the customer downloads on the website) It's a straightforward piece of code which works with a set of exceptions together with a general pluralization algorithm (it's OSS code actually from the castle lib).

Would that work for you?