I don’t know how long it’s been since I wrote my last Data Access Layer or piece of SQL Code, it certainly has been too long to even remember. Since then I’ve used a number of ORMs (Object Relational Mappers) or/and DAL Code Generators to perform all the tedious data access manipulation I needed.
The ones I’ve used are
LLBGen : Unfortunately this free version stop evolving a long time ago (since .Net framework 1.1) and became a commercial solution,
Olero’s ORM.Net : Which was my favorite Open Source (GPL Licensed) ORM, although it didn’t support Generics and all the nice stuff .Net 2.0 brought us.
Lately though I’ve been experimenting with SubSonic the zero code DAL as they call it and I must say I was Impressed with its simplicity, flexibility and extensibility. At last this open source ORM supported Generics and it was designed with .Net Framework
So after studying and re-engineering the code, I’ve created a “fork” on Subsonic ‘s releases that will not only support Windows Form Applications but also the new INotifyPropertyChanged interface and ObservableCollection class of Windows Presentation Foundation so that I can easily bind data objects to my WPF forms.
I now have to do some testing before publishing the code and Officially announcing the release (using project’s codeplex space), so stay tuned if you’re interested…
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In terms of forking – why do you feel the need to do this? If you have some things to offer – let”s try to implement them. Our version 2.0 will fully support WinForms, and we have a nice commad line tool as well.
If you do decide to fork (this is your decision) please be sure to keep our source under the MPL license – this gaurantees that it remains open ;).
Cheers,
Rob
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I really did not expect such troubles on the server.I would be possible to create a WPF-less version of ReaderSvg. But this would probably take quite a lot of time and time is a thing I do not have much
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