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LLBLGen Pro v2.0 Released!

Monday, July 03, 2006 6:25 AM

Frans Bouma has released a significant upgrade to his already-wonderful O/R Mapping tool, LLBLGen Pro.

I've been using LLBLGen since my days back at Genesis, and I must say it has never let me down. An amazingly powerful tool, easily one of the best O/R mappers available for .NET. It powers my website, along with countless other projects that we did at Genesis.

And, if you don't already, I highly recommend subscribing to Frans' blog.. easily one of the smartest guys out there in the O/R space, his insights are almost always amazing. His article Stored procedures are bad, m'kay? is required reading in the whole sproc/dynamic sql debate. I can't recommend it enough....

Way to go Frans!

Comments

Zink 7/4/2006 1:51:35 AM
I have to use stored procedures where I'm currently working. Our primary database has something close to 600 of them; it's really ugly. I don't have to write or maintain them, thankfully; we have DBA's who get to do that.

I can tell you: after having used LLBL at Genesis, on both large and small projects, reverting to stored procedures is a total drag. I really wonder how much better our data model would be where I currently work if an O/R mapper like LLBL had been implemented on many of our projects.

On a side note: I've talked to several programmers/developers here in Omaha who have never even heard of the concept of an O/R mapper. That's really unfortunate and surprising to me. Of course, I have you to thank for introducting them out to me, Dusty!
Dusty 7/4/2006 10:01:29 AM
Yeah we use stored procedures at my work too. However most of them are automatically generated by our own "home-brew" O/R mapper. I suppose at least we're auto-generating them, but I still have serious issues with the sprocs.

Mainly, they're extremely "brittle". No change control, no accountability. I'd say not a day goes by that we don't have a missing or out-dated stored procedure causing serious issues. Then it's like "Why'd it get like this?"... nobody knows.

I could probably keep going, but I'll leave that up to others. I too am just happy to have discovered LLBL Gen!


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