Did a "webinar" last Wednesday with the Iron Speed Designer team. I have to say I was impressed. The design is definitely n-tier. Also includes an "a-layer" sort of thing - stuff that can be modified without being over written by subequent generation. Very iterative approach. The layouts are all changeable in Dreamweaver or whatever and work with CSS. DHTML, whatever. Interesting stuff.

New version 2.0 just released supports C#. Subscription will include upgrades released for VS 2005.

I think I may have found the VFE of .NET ;-)


>I think until someone comes out with something like VFE for .Net your best choice is to choose a framework and then use a template based code generator tool to create your entity/business objects and SP's.
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>Some good code genertors are
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>http://www.ericjsmith.net/codesmith/
>http://www.mygenerationsoftware.com
>http://www.olymars.net/latest.zip
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>The last above is pretty cool stuff. It was written by a guy at MS France. It is free but not supported.
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>Also, Kathleen Dollard wrote a book on Code Generation for/with .Net that I am planning on getting.
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>At this point I am leaning on using a persistence layer for appllications which goes against the current main stream of using SP's for data access. However, the Java camp has been using this technique for quite a while with plenty of success. Unfortunatly MS has dropped there version of this (Object Spaces) from Whidbey... so, I have been investigating third party implementations.
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>BOb