Currently using EntitySpaces 2010 for our data access layer
http://www.entityspaces.net/Portal/Default.aspx
Has support for LINQ.
Very happy with the product. Support is great.
Does cost, unlike nHibernate, but its not that expensive.
You could also check out lightspeed
(http://www.mindscape.co.nz/products/lightspeed/), SubSonic
(http://subsonicproject.com/) and
LLBLGen Pro (http://www.llblgen.com/defaultgeneric.aspx)
Have not used nHibernate, LightSpeed or SubSonic.
Regards peter
On 13/07/2010 11:18 PM, Les Hughes wrote:
Hi All,
I'm about to start working on a mid-sized data-centric app (accounting
area) which is mostly just lots of forms which display data,
edit/write data, and then spitting out some pretty reports, etc with
the data sitting in SQL Server. (Think of old-school MSaccess apps)
Wanting to avoid as much SQL plumbing as I can, I'm looking to use
nHibernate for a lot of the lifting, but haven't had a chance to look
around at perhaps some better packages/practices/etc which exist.
At this stage I have spent near zero time with Linq, and have only
heard of a few other packages in passing (Fluent/Active Record/etc),
and am wondering what (if anything) I should spend some time looking
in to.
My query is:
- Is nHibernate still the way to go? What do the rest of the .NETters
use for their data access layers? And why? Is Linq worth the learning
curve?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
--
Les Hughes
[email protected]
