Whoa time flies! . After 9 months of hard work, LLBLGen Pro v2.0 has been released! LLBLGen Pro V2.0 comes with a new licensing scheme: it's now licensed per seat, instead of per-department. Current customers of v1.0.200x.y can upgrade for EUR 49.- per developer. (Designer using developers need a license...

Recently, Scott Guthrie blogged about using DLinq with ASP.NET . I read the interesting article and thought... that must be possible today, with code using normal .NET 2.0! So, I started LLBLGen Pro v2.0 (V2 is currently in beta) and yes, I was able to do everything Scott showed in his article, with...

Preface To work with data on a semantic basis, it's often useful to specify general definitions of the elements a given portion of logic will work with. For example, an order system works with, among other elements, Order elements. To be able to define how this logic works, a definition of the concept...

Preface One of the biggest myths in O/R mapper land is about 'caching'. It's often believed that using a cache inside an O/R mapper makes queries much faster and thus makes the O/R mapper more efficient. With that conclusion in hand, every O/R mapper which doesn't use a cache is therefore less efficient...

Yesterday, we released HnD , which stands for Help and Discuss , our own customer support system and forums software! HnD has been released as free, open source software under the GPL v2 and uses ASP.NET 2.0, SqlServer and uses LLBLGen Pro v2.0 power for 100% of the data-access functionality. HnD is...

Recently, Andres Aguiar started a discussion between him and Udi Dahan about change tracking in the upcoming Entity Framework (EDM) from Microsoft. Basicly, Andres described why it was unfortunate that the EDM doesn't have change tracking inside the entity objects itself and gave some examples why that...

I'll host a chalk & talk session at the upcoming Dutch CodeCamp on May 12th. The title is O/R mapping and Architecture , and as my session is the first of 3 sessions, the others are held by Alex Thissen and Paul Gielens , we will align our sessions so the whole track is actually one big session...

Recently, Andres Aguiar started a discussion between him and Udi Dahan about change tracking in the upcoming Entity Framework (EDM) from Microsoft. Basicly, Andres described why it was unfortunate that the EDM doesn't have change tracking inside the entity objects itself and gave some examples why that...

Yesterday, we released HnD , which stands for Help and Discuss , our own customer support system and forums software! HnD has been released as free, open source software under the GPL v2 and uses ASP.NET 2.0, SqlServer and uses LLBLGen Pro v2.0 power for 100% of the data-access functionality. HnD is...

Preface One of the biggest myths in O/R mapper land is about 'caching'. It's often believed that using a cache inside an O/R mapper makes queries much faster and thus makes the O/R mapper more efficient. With that conclusion in hand, every O/R mapper which doesn't use a cache is therefore less efficient...