Re: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA?

2011-06-02 Thread DotNet Dude
, 2 June 2011 3:48 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA? 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

Re: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA?

2011-06-02 Thread Tony McGee
We used an older version (3.0.x) it on a green field LOB Windows Forms project around 2007 targeting .NET 3.0 and then 3.5 as soon as it became available. CSLA.NET has advantages and disadvantages I guess. It's not an ORM, but can work with your choice of ORM to persist business objects. We'd

RE: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA?

2011-06-02 Thread Kirsten Greed
Thanks Andrew It looks interesting, I like that it works with EF4. Will check it out. Kirsten _ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of li...@ml.net.au Sent: Thursday, 2 June 2011 5:13 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Any one using Rockford

RE: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA?

2011-06-02 Thread Kirsten Greed
Of Tony McGee Sent: Thursday, 2 June 2011 6:15 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA? We used an older version (3.0.x) it on a green field LOB Windows Forms project around 2007 targeting .NET 3.0 and then 3.5 as soon as it became available. CSLA.NET has advantages

Re: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA?

2011-06-02 Thread Stuart Kinnear
Whether or not you choose to use CSLA, you will learn a lot about what you need to think about when working with data. The things he covers are comprehensive and have been applied in guises outside of his framework in many areas of my programming. --

Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA?

2011-06-01 Thread Kirsten Greed
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:

Re: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA?

2011-06-01 Thread Stephen Liedig
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).

Re: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA?

2011-06-01 Thread Stephen Price
We used it on a project I was on 8+ months ago. I was focussing on the UI so didn't have that much to do with it, but now I'm learning RIA Services on the project I'm on. I wish we'd used RIA Services then but you get that. Also, the dependency on CSLA stopped them from updating to Silverlight 4

Re: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA?

2011-06-01 Thread DotNet Dude
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

RE: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA?

2011-06-01 Thread Kirsten Greed
Would you class nHibernate as Domain Logic or ORM or both? Kirsten -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of DotNet Dude Sent: Thursday, 2 June 2011 3:48 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA