Hi David,

Thanks for the heads up. Could you elaborate a little more as to why (or why you feel) "ObjectSpaces is dead".

Many thanks,

>ObjectSpaces is dead. The two best alternatives are:
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>1) Versant Open Access .NET: Clean programming API, Databinding, integrated Visual Studio Tools, won't be cheap.
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>2) NHibernate: Open source but no integrated tools.
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>Currently MM.NET supports the Table Module design pattern where the business object provides the methods that wrap a DataSet. I know Kevin has done some work to support O/R Mappers but I don't know how close it is to release.
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>My personal preference is to avoid most of the code generators in this category. Your milage may vary.
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>>Hi
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>>I am currently tasked with evaluating .NET frameworks / Code generators for an enterprise scale development project.
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>>The current thinking of the C# team is that the framework or tool should support the "as yet to be officially released" ObjectSpaces.
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>>Is MM.Net likely to implement ObjectSpaces? If not, what approach will it take to object relational mapping (if any). How does the framework currently handle the relationship between data and its business objects?
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>>Any thoughts on this from existing MM users/developers would be greatly appreciated.
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>>Thanks,