O/RM code generator for CSLA .NET generating Stored Procedures, Business Layer and Data Access Layer code for Wisej, WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight.
Targets CSLA
- 5 (most scenarios)
- 4.3-4.6
There is a complete set of C# templates. Currently there are VB templates, but only for non DAL architecture. You are welcome to contribute with VB templates for DAL DataReader and DAL using DTO.
Some common CSLA 5 templates added.
This release brings a lot of new features and some usability improvements. It's available at CslaGenFork release 4.6.0
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Besides SQL Server, code generation can target other database engines.
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Numerous fixes to VB code generation
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New kinds of CslaObject: abstract base classes, custom criteria classes (wip). The place holder is a nice feature that can be used to group objects (in light blue)
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Improved property handling with support for custom types (enums etc), database unbound properties and properties persisted to the database as null (read and WRITE)
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Much improved inheritance support
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Handle the Saved static event raised by EditableRoot with Weak Event (the generated code was causing memory leaks)
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Improved database type handling (doesn't crash on geography, etc)
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The "rules from DLL" feature supports rules with generic type parameters.
- Improve Enum's display - for instance, show Editable Child Collection instead of EditableChildCollection or show C# instead of CSharp
- Improve UI field hiding (show only UI fields that make sense)
- Improve type filtering (show only objects/properties that make sense).
- Introduce Don't ask again MessageBoxEx control and apply it where it fits.
The incomplete feature Generate BypassPropertyChecks was dropped. Dropped legacy support: pre CSLA .NET 4.0 projects, active objects and plugin system.
2017 Sep 04 - Rules sample moved to CslaContrib
- The rules in CslaGenFork library were added to CslaContrib library;
- They are available on NuGet as CslaContrib
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