Re: Why use ActiveRecord For LINQ??

2009-06-01 Thread Markus Zywitza
2009/5/31 James Curran james.cur...@gmail.com: That not particularly relevant. Yes, MS has said that there won't be anymore updates to Linq2Sql--- However, AR NH are open-source projects --- Updates to them can stop at any moment without any notice.Of course -- we are only pretending to

Re: Why use ActiveRecord For LINQ??

2009-05-28 Thread Markus Zywitza
2009/5/28 James Curran james.cur...@gmail.com: 1)  AR - NH -  MSSQL (plus others, which we'll ignore for now) 2)  AR  - LINQ - NH - MSSQL, et al. It's rather: LINQ - AR - NH - RDBMS In option 1, you can query the DB with HQL and (Detached)Criteria queries. In 2, you can also use LINQ query

Re: Why use ActiveRecord For LINQ??

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Hölbling
-users@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, 28 May, 2009 2:38:14 PM *Subject:* Re: Why use ActiveRecord For LINQ?? But I think that changes the terminology more than the underlying question. We have the options: 1) AR - NH - MSSQL (plus others, which we'll ignore for now) 2) AR - LINQ

Why use ActiveRecord For LINQ??

2009-05-27 Thread James Curran
I'm using Monorail/Windsor but not ActiveRecord. For my data access, I'm using LINQ directly. It seemed to me the LINQ and AR do essentially the same thing. Lately, I've been hearing a lot about ActiveRecord For LINQ on this (actually the Devel) mailing list. This raises some questions

Re: Why use ActiveRecord For LINQ??

2009-05-27 Thread Markus Zywitza
Wrong question, wrong answer... It's neither Linq2SQL nor Linq2objects. L2SQL is not only LINQ but a LINQ provider on top of MS mapping wizards. LINQ2AR is a wrapper around LINQ2NH (or NHLinq), which are LINQ providers for NHibernate. In the end, it means that you can use ActiveRecord with the

Re: Why use ActiveRecord For LINQ??

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Henderson
Wrong answer, that's a bit harsh :) - I was just trying to clarify what they were referring to as Linq (because it obviously wasn't the blanket concept of a language integrated query) - I wasn't attempting to answer the question... I have actually seen the odd developer using Linq for objects

Re: Why use ActiveRecord For LINQ??

2009-05-27 Thread James Curran
But I think that changes the terminology more than the underlying question. We have the options: 1) AR - NH - MSSQL (plus others, which we'll ignore for now) 2) AR - LINQ - NH - MSSQL, et al. 3) LINQ - MSSQL What are the pro cons of each option. One con of (3) is that it's primarily

Re: Why use ActiveRecord For LINQ??

2009-05-27 Thread John Simons
use ActiveRecord For LINQ?? But I think that changes the terminology more than the underlying question. We have the options: 1) AR - NH - MSSQL (plus others, which we'll ignore for now) 2) AR - LINQ - NH - MSSQL, et al. 3) LINQ - MSSQL What are the pro cons of each option. One con of (3