Hi everyone, I write this message as a kind of blog post. Since I have no blog and it relates to DbLinq, the right place to publish seemed to be here.
it's been a long summer, with thoughts and expectations. VS2008SP1 came out, along with Linq to entities (a.k.a. the ADO.NET entity framework). I've read the documentation, gave it a try, and it appears to be insufficient (at least to me). There is a higher abstraction level, but you need to start from an existing database, leaving all initial modeling useless, and the extensibility isn't that great. Apparently, a lot of people are disappointed by the entity framework (see http://efvote.wufoo.com/forms/ado-net-entity-framework-vote-of-no-confidence/) so let's just forget it for now. I also took a look back at NHibernate, which is a great product too. Anyway, the linq support is late, and some major performance problems were found. In fact, I realized this summer that I love Linq to SQL: it is a simple and quite complete product. I had a chat with George Moudry (DbLinq's owner) and there was the question to freeze the project, since George has other plans, and I was a bit tired of spending my nights on DbLinq. But I just can't give up. Some projects are still waiting for DbLinq, and we're not far from something usable (for a professional use). Leaving the project would also be unfair for people like Pablo and the mono team. Beside this, it is easy to extend, and was sometimes fun to write. So I'm probably going to code less, and work more as a project manager, if you contributors agree. So the next steps are: 1. Releasing a version with new engine. This requires some fixes on the "insert" code (Thomas, if you read this, please let me know). 2. Add the missing essential features and get a product close to Linq to SQL. 3. Extend (I have the strong problem of generating only one source file from the dbml, so the code can not be used in a lose coupled n-tier architecture). 4. Support a zillion databases (that's the fun part). 5. Be rich, famous, and let naked girls come to us. Are you here guys? We've got some work :) -- Pascal. jabber/gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DbLinq" 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/dblinq?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
