TBH seems pretty solid but you'll want to customize it to fit your needs. The main thing I don't like is the Web Events mechanism. As Marco set it up it can only log errors to the DB. If the DB is down you won't see any errors. I like to know if my DB was down at 2:00 in case I get a user complaint about it.

But then, Contact Us won't work if the DB is down either. I don't think you could get far enough into the app to use that if the DB is down. This is a job for a custom error page, that might have a contact email address on it.

Eric

Hi all,
I would like you to read this article about O/R mapping and i would also like to listen your comments about this article.

Top 10 Must Have Features in O/R Mapping Tools

by Iqbal Khan


O/R mapping tools are becoming more popular each day and people are realizing the productivity gain they provide to developers. Yet, many people don’t know enough about O/R mapping to consider using these tools and many others are weary of using any code generators (including O/R mapping tools).

In this article, I will try to educate you about the various important features that a good O/R mapping tool would provide you and how it can be beneficial to you. I am not discussing any particular O/R mapping tool but rather all tools in general.

What is O/R mapping?

If you’re developing an object oriented application that requires a relational database, you’ll need to develop persistence objects that are modeled against your database design and know how to interact with different tables in the database. You can either develop these objects by hand or use an O/R mapping tool to map and generate them quickly. Hopefully, after reading this article, you’ll be convinced that developing by-hand is a bad idea in most situations.

An O/R mapping tool connects to your database and reads its schema, then lets you map persistence objects to database tables and views, specify single-row transactional operations, queries, and stored procedure calls as methods to these objects. And, it also lets you define one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many relationships between objects based on relationships in the database. It then generates fully working persistence objects code for you. Below is a simple example of some persistence objects. Please note that in this persistence design pattern as explained in Domain Objects Persistence Pattern for .NET, the persistence objects are broken up into "Domain Objects" and "Factory Objects". You can read more about this design pattern if you wish.

Read more http://www.alachisoft.com/rp.php?sou...s/top_ten.html

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Sarah Sana
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Plugs for commercial tools seem out of place here unless you can tie it to the subject of this forum, which relates to a specific book and website. In this case, a discussion of how this tool could be used for TheBeerHouse would be appropriate, but just citing some kind of canned article so you can advertise your product is not a good fit here.

Eric

firstly, sorry that this is cross-posted on the BizObect thread. Just wanted to 'counter' the commercial link above with a freeware link that is directly related to TheBeerHouse:

Hi all,

OK- after a few days 'fiddling' with the authors code, i've made some changes to the Flixon Site Generator code. The changes are mainly in the ergonomics as well as changes that i've made to the templates to stear them closer to the way that TheBeerHouse is provisioned. To this end, I was wondering if i could enlist the help of the regulars here to do a bit of useability testing. The use of the app is detailed basically on the front screen when launching SiteGenerator.exe.

You can download the RC1 from this link:

http://www.jamestollan.com/downloads...eGenerator.zip

Once downloaded, simply extract the archive into your c:\Program Files\ folder. it will create a folder named Flixon with a sub folder below that called 'Site Generator'. From there, simply run the Site Generator.exe file and follow the onscreen instructions. If you have the current live version of the application, just unzip over the top of it - all shortcuts will be respected.

Let me know how you get on etc.

BTW - in the final release (and current release) of the sitegenerator, the MSI install will take care of desktop shortcuts etc, for now, (unless you have the previous version installed) simply create the desktop shortcuts yourself. Also, make sure you have installed the SQLServer Management Studio as this will make life so much easier when attaching your database to the SQLServer node (to make it visible to any application querying the SQLServer database node). You can find this here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

thanks again

jimi

http://www.jamestollan.com