Re: Building Windows fat clients

There's NHibernate, which is a C# port of Java's Hibernate. I've got
no idea if it's any good, but using it might give you a Java Escape
Route if you needed someday to go cross platform.

-- Ilan

On Sep 19, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:

> I'm asking this group because we tend to think alike wrt to data
> modeling
> and separation of concerns ;-)
>
> Any recommendations on ORM libraries for new Windows development?
> The last
> time I started anything from scratch was over 10 years ago, and the
> "state
> of the art" seemed to be to smash everything together into event
> handlers on
> GUI objects. Ugh. I pulled the M of the MVC out into separate coherent
> classes and implemented a *very* simple ORM, leaving the VC mostly
> conflated
> in the event handlers--which is not too bad since this app will
> never need
> to be cross-platform.
>
> So the dev tool was discontinued, some closed-source libraries are
> getting
> less and less compatible by the year, and we're going to rewrite.
> Where to
> start? It's a custom Windows-only app, only installed at one site.
> Using
> .NET would be fine. C# or C++ would be most-preferred language
> choices,
> although we could suck it up and use Java. I don't want to put VB
> on the
> table.
>
> Leaning toward Visual Studio .NET because I know it will be around (in
> whatever morphed form) for a while; but also considering Borland's
> supposedly revitalized C++ tools because I used C++ Builder with
> success
> back when MS C++ compilers were still awful. I should probably
> mention that
> the Windows apps, with the exception of one complicated "explore
> customer's
> entire history here" screen, are pretty simple; the complexity is
> in reports
> and stored procedures.
>
> Suggestions where to start?
>
> --
> Scott Ribe
> scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com
> http://www.killerbytes.com/
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