Thursday, July 28, 2005
.Net Tier Beta 1 is Released !
" .NetTiers are CodeSmith templates for object-relational mapping that takes an existing SQLServer database and automatically generates a personnalized Data Tiers application block to use in your .Net applications. "
Some of its features include:
- Fully integrate with entreprise library application blocks architecture. Shipped with it's own plugin, so you can configure your application directly from the entlib configuration console.
- Generate the business objects (called entities) with a 1:1 mapping ( an entity for each table, with a property for each column).
- Generate Data Access Layer Components (DALC) for tables and views , with following database operations :
- Support for basic CRUD: UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT, SELECT ALL, PAGED SELECT, FIND
- Support for queries using primary key
- Support for queries using foreign key
- Support for queries using keys that are part of an index
- Support for queries using keys that are part of a junction table
- Support for user defined Methods, generated from queries that are detected throught a very simple naming rule (_TableName_MyMethodName)
- Support for Deep loading and saving, with children type selection and optional recursivity.
- Support for find methods, with paging and sorting. (builded with the datagrid in mind :-)
- NEW: Support for SqlView.
- NEW: Select between stored procedure or xml embedded queries.
- Generate strongly-typed collections for entities and repositories.
- Create the stored procedures script and can automatically install them on the server. The current beta includes dynamic sql as well.
- Generates a complete nAnt build file, to compile, test and generate chm/html API documentation.
- A full set of nUnit tests.