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5/8/2006 9:31 AM
 
Kyle Parker

Joined: 12/1/2003
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The DNN community amazes me everyday with their experience and professionalism!  DNN is a great product, but it also a great learning tool.  DNN and the community have become a trusted resource for me.

My question is off topic....

I'm looking for advice on using a DAL generator named ".NetTiers" for a non-DNN, Windows Forms project.  I've used LLBLgen and a few others in the past, but this one looks pretty easy to use.  It is a collection of CodeSmith templates that generates the DAL.  It is fully integrated with MS's Enterprise Library application blocks architecture.

www.nettiers.com

Their site states, ".NetTiers are CodeSmith templates for object-relational mapping that takes an existing SQLServer database and automatically generates a personalized Data Tiers application block to use in your .Net applications."
 
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5/8/2006 12:57 PM
 
Tim Patterson

Joined: 1/12/2004
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I haven't used .NetTiers, but I have a question:  why wouldn't you used the the built-in provider pattern that is already part of DotNetNuke?  I was writing my own DALs for every module I built for customers until about four months ago, when finally sat down with the wrox book and went through the process... using the built in stuff cut down dramatically on the size of my DLLs and took advantage of a lot of code that was already written.
 
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5/8/2006 1:41 PM
 
Kyle Parker

Joined: 12/1/2003
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For DNN projects I use the provider pattern.  This is for a non-DNN, Windows Forms project.  May I should adapt the provider pattern that's in DNN for use in a Windows Forms project.
 
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5/8/2006 1:47 PM
 
Scott Schecter

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There are many reasons one would prefer O/R Mapping & code generation for a DAL as opposed to hand coding. The obvious ones are time, and reproducibility. We have such a product called EntitySpaces that is persistence layer and generated business objects that will do 100% of your dal coding in the form of generated code from your db schema. Additionally you then have a fully unit tested DAL with tests you can run. Surely you can see advantages here.

**Edit, as for why one might not want to use the standard DNN dal, there is lack of dynamic query, transactions, and serialization just to name a few.
 
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5/8/2006 2:00 PM
 
Michael Flanakin


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Hmm... I haven't used it, but I am very interested in it. I can't wait for DNN to start working with the latest Enterprise Library release. The antiquated Data Access Block pales in comparison to EL.
Michael Flanakin | Microsoft Consulting Services
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