The same can be said about nHibernate and lots of people love that :-)
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Stephen Liedig <slie...@gmail.com> wrote: > I used csla extensively on a project recently and quite frankly hated it. > I'm not saying its not powerful, it is, but the learning curve is steep and > frankly provided no tangle benefits other than constraining your code > to adhere to the framework (which can be useful in certain situations). > Overall I felt it increased the complexity of the code, and projects > assembly and versioning dependencies. > Others love it and want to use it for everything. > just my 2c. > - Steve > > > > > On 2 June 2011 13:03, DotNet Dude <adotnetd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Really depends on the application.. if you are going for DDD then you >> can use both EF and CSLA. See here for Rocky's take on it >> >> www.lhotka.net/weblog/ADONETEntityFrameworkLINQAndCSLANET.aspx >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Kirsten Greed <kirst...@jobtalk.com.au> >> wrote: >> > Hi All >> > >> > Is anyone using http://www.lhotka.net/cslanet/ >> > >> > I am thinking EF4 may be good for reading and writing data from tables – >> > but >> > not for implementing domain logic. >> > >> > Kirsten >> > >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > >> > From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com >> > [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] >> > On Behalf Of Greg Keogh >> > Sent: Thursday, 2 June 2011 12:14 PM >> > To: 'ozDotNet' >> > Subject: RE: building the domain model - what tools to use? >> > >> > >> > >> > Folks, I’ve also been trying to do exactly the same thing as Kirsten in >> > the >> > EF4 model designer. >> > >> > >> > >> > I want to make an Entity which is a “view” of a few joined tables. You >> > can >> > easily make the entity and add scalar properties to it, but my attempts >> > to >> > map the properties to the underlying table columns doesn’t work via any >> > tricks I can find. Part of the problem is the understanding the >> > cluttered >> > mapping control, and part is the incomprehensible slew of compile errors >> > that are generated. >> > >> > >> > >> > After all, I’m asking to do what ORM is designed to do, but I’m >> > flummoxed as >> > well. I’ll try and find the relevant parts of Julia Lerman’s book and >> > read >> > them again, and again. She must do this somewhere in the book. >> > >> > >> > >> > Greg >> > >> > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >> > signature >> > database 6172 (20110601) __________ >> > >> > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >> > >> > http://www.eset.com > >