Andres has done a really good job on Retina.NET, which is an open source, free O/R Mapper that uses attributes on business classes to help persist information to a database. There is also an optional DataStoreBuilder class that will create tables on the fly in your database if the tables for persisting your objects has not been created.
This version is just a pre-release verson of 1.0.7 and will be the last version to support .NET 1.1. Andres is working on a new version of the object-relational mapper for .NET 2.0.
Andres mentions the following for this release:
“I'm uploading a prerelease version of Retina.NET v1.0.7 (build 2) for testing and feedback from the community. It's a source only release, and although the core of Retina.NET is finished, I still have to work some more in some DataProviders, samples and documentation.
DataProviders MSSQL, MSSQL2005 and SharpHsql are complete and ready for you to test and use. Other DataProviders lacks Criteria Paging and version control features that will be implemented shortly.
For a list of new features and changes please look at "changes.txt" file.
There might be some uncovered bugs yet in the Core (this version includes HUGE features) and the idea is to find them before the final release.
Retina.NET v1.0.7 will be the last NET 1.1 release as I'm already working on a NET 2.0 version. Anybody wanting to collaborate on docs/samples/etc will be welcome, and maybe we can release the final version sooner than expected.” - Andres
I look forward to the production release so I can talk about this O/R Mapper a bit more.
Learn more here.
Categories: Code Generation - O/R Mappers
Source: David Hayden ( Florida .NET Developer )