Necessary? No... definitely not, but you have to balance the value that you get from a framework vs. the it would take you to build it. While you may htink that you have all the control, building a good object business framework is not something that happens in a few weeks of coding - it's something that takes quite a bit of time to build the base framework and then test and work out the inevitable issues.

All that said using a third party framework usually has a learning curve so it doesn't come for free either, but learning a framework is something you can do probably in a few days... less if you ony need the core features.

Like everthing in live - it's a trade off <g>..

+++ Rick ---


>Hey Guys!
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>I just want to ask if it's really necessary to buy 3rd party product for us to create nTier architecture particularly dataobjects generator. We are using VS2005 C#.Net. We are trying to convert our 2tier C# application into ntier.
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>Any 3rd party product recommendation? I'm looking at EasyObjects.NET, DataObjects.NET, ComponentOne.NET, MereMortals.NET...
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>But I have this feeling that it might be a good idea if I'll manually do it so I will be in total control. The only problem I see is that we are running out of time.
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>TIA.