Sample Data

[Lone]

This attracted me the most since my application will rely heavily on data and it is hard to manually code test data for a program prototype. However, I do not see any code samples depicting how I would go about using or implementing this sample data. Can you gove me a few guidelines.

[Rossen Hristov]

Hi Lone,

You can use the AdventureWorks or Chinook sample databases provided from Microsoft. They provide quite realistic sample data, i.e. there are tables with huge amounts of records, there are master-details relationships, etc. In other words, they try to cover almost all real-life project scenarios that could exist. Of course, sample data is sample data, there might be real-life project which are much more complex.

Alternatively you can create dummy data in memory on the fly in any possible way that you need. There are no a rules or guidelines on how to create sample data (or examples).

This is just .NET source code. You can create sample data in infinite number of ways, for example:

public static IEnumerable<Customer> GetSampleData(int count)
{
    return from index in Enumerable.Range(1, count)
           select new Customer
                      {
                          Age = index,
                          Boolean = Convert.ToBoolean(index % 2),
                          Name = "Customer " + index,
                          JobCode = index,
                          RegistrationDate = DateTime.Today
                      };
}

Or anything else that you might need.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Ross
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