Hey! just a quick announcement to say that I released a new version of Retina.NET Core and also the new DSL designer for VS2008. You can download the precompiled binaries or source code from the CodePlex Retina.NET page. As always, comments / suggestions / critics... are all welcome. Thanks in advance...

The Retina.NET project was dormant for some time, but with some help I'm bringing it back to life. The last official release was made on October 2006 (v1.0.8.0) and at that time I was working on the new v2 release, but I never finished that task and so the project came to a stop. Nonetheless, I have...

There are at least a couple of ways to view the SQL generated by NHibernate. The easiest way is probably to use the hibernate.show_sql configuration property to dump it all to Console.Out : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <configSections>...

This post is part of a small series on .NET ORM tools. You can find the rest of them here . While I was checking out a number of .NET ORM tools, I thought I'd work through the exercise using the ORM-related bits from the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 and the Entity Designer CTP2 . Scene refresher I...

This post is part of a small series on .NET ORM tools. You can find the rest of them here . As part of my continuing efforts to fragrantly misuse a number of .NET ORM tools, here is my effort with LinqToSql. The usual proviso applies: all of this is really quick and hacky, as it is just to get a little...

This post is part of a small series on .NET ORM tools. You can find the rest of them here . After messing around with SubSonic , I thought I'd run through the same scenario with NHibernate. A quick disclaimer: both tools a very different, so comparing them is a bit like comparing apples and oranges....

This post is part of a small series on .NET ORM tools. You can find the rest of them here . I recently heard a complaint about SubSonic queries, especially with regards to joining between tables. After looking at the forums, which basically recommended replacing complex queries or joins with SPs, I decided...

I have an assembly full of data objects (say, MyGreatApp.Objects.dll), and an assembly that manages data access (say, MyGreatApp.DataAccess.dll). As the data access DLL is handling persistence, it should have the embedded NHibernate mapping files (*.hbm.xml). I tried to configure a session factory from...

I wasn't sure how well SubSonic would play with Oracle, but it turns out that it was very easy to get the basics working. First, I setup a data access class and the SubSonic basics like VS external tools etc. Instead of the configuration suggested in the above link, my App.config looked like this: <...

As you probably know the GotDotNet site is being phased out in favor of the new CodePlex, so I have moved the Retina.NET project to http://www.codeplex.com/retina I have uploaded the last stable sources and binaries (v1.0.8.0) and sources to the CodePlex TFS servers for the latest (still incomplete)...