I've created a simple yet efficient tool to help generate stored procedures and a C# data access layer from a table.  Instead of using an ORM, this uses standard ADO .NET (SqlConnection, SqlDataReader, etc).  Check it out at www.asteio.com.  It's saved me a ton of time and I'm hoping it does the same for you....

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