EntitySpaces ORM 2010 Preview (I and II) (www.entityspaces.net)

submitted by Mike.Griffin(2290) 1 month, 6 days ago

This is another quick progress video on EntitySpaces 2010. In this video we show off our esEntityCollectionView<> class which in ES2009 relied on ADO.NET DataViews. However, these are now entirely our own creation and far superior. Remember, we do not use ADO.NET under the hood anymore (see Part I here if you missed it). However, our data providers which read and write to the database of course. Also, we show off some very cool new debugging features that will really help you when debugging your EntitySpaces applications. And finally, with the use of implicit type casting operators, working with the proxy stub classes has become basically, well, transparent. read more...

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Visual NHibernate beta (www.slyce.com)

submitted by powerrush(3754) 2 months, 6 days ago

Visual NHibernate makes it easier and quicker to create and maintain NHibernate projects - even very complex ones. Point it at your existing projects and start modelling them right away - visually. Visual NHibernate makes complex mapping to multiple database tables easy. Simply connect a mapping to a table field and the mapping is complete - all required NHibernate code is generated based on what is mapped. This is the only tool supporting complex mapping to multiple database tables. (Others only allow one-to-one mapping of tables and classes.) This is a true separation of the domain model and the database schema. Using complex mapping allows optimal software architectures to be built on existing legacy databases without having to redesign the database. read more...

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EntitySpaces 2009 Q3 Officially Released (www.entityspaces.net)

published 4 months, 12 days ago, submitted by Mike.Griffin(2290) 4 months, 12 days ago

The EntitySpaces 2009 Q3 release has some of the best support for Silverlight and WCF that any ORM has to offer. Our smart proxies are very powerful and make working with WCF services and Silverlight a breeze. Checkout our our Silverlight and WCF demos. Also, our DynamicQuery API is much more powerful in this release. We also added Sybase support and 64 bit runtimes, and more ... read more...

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How to Think Like the ADO.NET Entity Framework (blogs.teamb.com)

submitted by CraigStuntz(425) 5 months, 1 day ago

A free, online presentation on how to work effectively with the Entity Framework read more...

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EntitySpaces 2009 Q3 Trial Version Available (www.entityspaces.net)

submitted by Mike.Griffin(2290) 5 months, 9 days ago

We are pleased to make our ES2009 Q3 Beta available as our Trial version. In fact, this is our only Trial version as we want folks new to EntitySpaces to begin with this version. The production release is scheduled for September 28th, 2009. This trial includes data providers for all of our supported databases. The EntitySpaces 2009 Q3 release we feel has some of the best support for Silverlight that any ORM has to offer. Our smart proxies are very powerful and make working with WCF services and Silverlight a breeze. Also, our DynamicQuery API is much more powerful in this release. read more...

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Review of SubSonic 3 from a SubSonic 2.x user perspective (jamesewelch.wordpress.com)

published 5 months, 20 days ago, submitted by jamesewelch(2265) 5 months, 21 days ago

A quick review of SubSonic 3.0.0.3 from the perspective of a developer who's implemented SubSonic 2.x on numerous projects. An overview of initial likes and dislikes and a little bit of code snippets to bring back 2.x functions missing from 3.0. read more...

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Table Per Subclass Inheritance Mapping with Fluent nHibernate (ang3lfir3.wordpress.com)

submitted by ang3lfir3(640) 6 months, 3 days ago

This is the third in a short series of posts I am working on. While reading through NHibernate in Action I thought to my self that I should create these same examples of Inheritance mapping using Fluent nHibernate to show how simple these mappings can be. read more...

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Table Per Class Hierarchy Inheritance Mapping with Fluent nHibernate (ang3lfir3.wordpress.com)

submitted by ang3lfir3(640) 6 months, 5 days ago

This is the second in a short series of posts I am working on. While reading through NHibernate in Action I thought to my self that I should create these same examples of Inheritance mapping using Fluent nHibernate to show how simple these mappings can be. The three types of Inheritance mappings that are mentioned on page 92 of NHibernate in Action are :Model * Table Per Concrete Class * Table Per Class Hierarchy * Table Per Subclass I will be using the example from NHibernate in Action to illustrate the mappings. This post covers the Table Per Class Hierarchy example. read more...

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Table Per Class Inheritance Mapping with Fluent nHibernate (ang3lfir3.wordpress.com)

submitted by ang3lfir3(640) 6 months, 5 days ago

This is the first in a short series of posts I am working on. While reading through NHibernate in Action I thought to my self that I should create these same examples of Inheritance mapping using Fluent nHibernate to show how simple these mappings can be. read more...

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EntitySpaces Alpha 2009.1.0803.0 with Sybase Support Released (www.entityspaces.net)

published 6 months, 6 days ago, submitted by Mike.Griffin(2290) 6 months, 7 days ago

We are very excited to announce our Sybase SQL Anywhere support available with this release. We currently support Sybase SQL Anywhere 11 (versions 11.0.0.1490 and 11.0.1.2044). Our assemblies are bound to the 11.0.1.2044 version. However, if you are using the older 11.0.0.1490 version see this post on our forums. Swapping your SQL Anywhere provider version only takes a minute or two. We ship two providers for Sybase, a regular desktop provider and one for the Compact Framework as well. Both of these are available in this alpha release. EntitySpaces (the application) is available in two modes; a Visual Studio Add-In which is available from the Visual Studio “Tools” menu and the “stand alone” application available from your EntitySpaces 2009 menu after installation. read more...

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EntitySpaces Sybase Support Coming August 3rd, 2009 (www.entityspaces.net)

submitted by Mike.Griffin(2290) 6 months, 13 days ago

We have our Sybase SQL Anywhere implementation working quite well now. We are releasing a new alpha on August 3rd that will come with a new provider for Sybase SQL Anywhere including a Compact Framework provider as well for Sybase mobile development. We have been developing and testing with SQL Anywhere version 11. Everything is working great including autoincrement keys, concurrency checking, and so on. We haven't tested our stored procedures yet but should have that work completed by August 3rd. Remember Sybase fans, EntitySpaces runs under Mono as well. read more...

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The EntitySpaces Silverlight Demo (online) (www.entityspaces.net)

submitted by Mike.Griffin(2290) 6 months, 24 days ago

We have pushed our EntitySpaces Silverlight application up so you can run it and take a look at it. We decided to compile it under the Silverlight 3 toolset so it requires Silverlight 3 to run it. We did this to make sure we are compatible. The Silverlight 3 is RTM now and you can download the Visual Studio tools for it HERE but you do not need these to run the demo, just to develop Silverlight 3 applications. There is a lot of code posted in this blog post but we thought you might really want to know how this stuff works, it’s not that hard to understand if you take the time to look at the code. read more...

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EntitySpaces, Silverlight, and WCF a Fantastic Combination (www.entityspaces.net)

published 7 months, 1 day ago, submitted by Mike.Griffin(2290) 7 months, 2 days ago

Okay, we finally got it!! We can honestly say getting a grip on Silverlight has been a real learning curve for our team, but it’s going to be a breeze for EntitySpaces customers because we’ve done all the research and laid all of the track. Our first approach was to use strings for everything because we didn’t want to use the “brain dead” proxies created by Visual Studio when you add a service reference to a Silverlight project. Then we figured out how we could force Visual Studio to use our client side proxies when adding a service reference, this is truly awesome. I cannot imagine a better way to write Silverlight applications than with EntitySpaces. What we are about to show you is so easy it will floor you. We will also be making a video on this and making our demo available with a future alpha or beta version. Okay, enough hype, show us already !! read more...

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EntitySpaces Alpha - Focusing on Silverlight and WCF (www.entityspaces.net)

published 7 months, 1 day ago, submitted by Mike.Griffin(2290) 7 months, 4 days ago

Besides the enhancements mentioned in the DynamicQuery Enhancements this release addresses some important issues discovered in our previous alpha concerning Silverlight and WCF. You should uninstall the prior alpha before upgrading. Our Silverlight assembly is now named EntitySpaces.DynamicQuery.Silverlight.dll. Second, there is a new class called esDataContractSerializer (available in the .NET 3.5 assemblies) that can be used in any WCF or Silverlight application). read more...

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EntitySpaces DynamicQuery Serialization Part II (WCF and Silverlight) (www.entityspaces.net)

submitted by Mike.Griffin(2290) 7 months, 23 days ago

This stuff is hot guys and gals. We are asking Jon Davis to write an entirely new Silverlight demo that will showcase our DynamicQuery feature running under Silverlight inside the browser and hitting a WCF service on the server. We cannot wait, this is so slick … Here’s another sneak peak post. read more...

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Book review: NHibernate in Action (www.bengtbe.com)

submitted by bengtbe(450) 7 months, 25 days ago

In this post I review the book NHibernate in Action from Manning Publications. As far as I know this is the only book that solely covers the Object/Relational Mapper NHibernate. read more...

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