Does SQLMetal support SQL-Server 2008 datatypes?

I'm using LinqToSQL in a 3.5 framework project in VS2K8, running against MS SQL 2k8.

When I create the table mappings using the design surface within Visual Studio everything works fine.

When I create the table mappings using SQLMetal (from the Windows SDK v6开发者_开发百科.1), SQLMetal complains about about the SQL Server 2k8 datatypes (e.g. date and time) that I'm making use of.

Does SQLMetal support the SQL Server 2k8 datatypes? Do I need an updated version? Or do I have to create my mapping in the visual designer/revert to SQL Server 2k5 datatypes?

Thanks

As far as i know it supports it, so you probably need a newer version of SqlMetal. In the initial version, when Visual Studio 2008 was launched it was not supporting this so probably that's why you have this problem.

According to MSDN:

The SQLMetal file is included in the Windows SDK that is installed with Visual Studio. By default, the file is located at drive:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\vn.nn\bin. If you do not install Visual Studio, you can also get the SQLMetal file by downloading the Windows SDK.