Wayne thank you it does help. LLBLGEN is one of the most commonly praised ORMs, and I'd be curious to hear why you've moved to AR/NH? As you say, tradeoffs on both sides, but I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.
Frankly I think we could use as much hand holding as possible. But the Active Record examples are pretty straightforward. I am not sure how versed in NHibernate we would need to become, that's a concern. Has anyone here checked out Entity Framework? I can see ORMs being a huge aid. We just never got exposure...so it's more of a learning curve thing. We're effecient at what we do now, and starting from zilch on a new stack is always a time drain at the start. We're so new to flex that I'm afraid I can't offer you too much on that. .Net and flex seem to go well together. On Apr 7, 2:10 am, Wayne Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey > > First comment: > > >So far we've been able to keep clear of ORMs > > You make it sound like you've been trying to stay away from ORMs!!! ORM > isn't a bad thing you need to stear clear of! Honestly :) > > Second: > > I come from an LLBLGEN background and have recently switched to AR/NH - to > be honest - they both have their pros and cons but are both a million miles > better than writting your own code for the purpose. They will both work with > whatever .NET/CLI language you want. AR is about as simple as you'd want it > and the only downer about everything being in C# is that if your guys aren't > used to C# they may find some of the examples a bit foreign. > > As a side - what's the workflow like working with flex in a .net > environment? I've thought about this doing a few times. > > hth > > w:// > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:31 PM, novnov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is really a scattershot question because I have little exposure > > to ORMs and only vaguely formulated requirements. > > > Some background...I like postgresql a lot and also use sql server and > > oracle. I/we are usually responsible for all of the parts of an app, > > from the rdbms to the user interface. We do a lot on Windows with .net > > (visual basic) but are getting exposure to flex on the interface side > > of things. So far we've been able to keep clear of ORMs and code > > generators. > > > A project is coming up which will need be be deployed against both > > postgresql and oracle (different deploys). This may be forcing us to > > use an ORM so that the interface is more independent of the rdbms. > > > Is NHibernate and maybe Castle Project Active Record a good solution > > for our needs? The ORM would not have to be open source, ie we could > > buy something. We want it to be as simple to pick up and use as > > possible. We don't want to lose the ability to execute procs in > > postgres and I'm worried that nhibernate has that limitation, as the > > front page states that stored procedures are supported for sql server. > > > Finally, is Active Record ok with visual basic? Most if not all of the > > examples are in C#. > > -- > Cheers, > > w://- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Castle Project Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
