Can you use the same Enum in multiple entities in Linq-to-SQL?

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Published on 2010-03-09T11:50:37Z Indexed on 2010/03/09 11:51 UTC
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In my persistence layer, I've declared a load of Enums to represent tables containing reference data (i.e. data never changes).

In Linq2SQL, I am able to set the type of an entity property to an enum type and all is well, but as soon as I set a second entity's property to use the same enum type, the Code Generator (MSLinqToSQLGenerator) start generating an empty code file.

I assume that MSLinqToSQLGenerator is quietly crashing. The question is why, and are there any work-arounds? Anyone else experienced this problem?

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