It is definitely worth taking a look at IronSpeed Designer
www.ironspeed.com.
Their website makes getting a feel for what the product has to offer very easy as there are a number of camtasia presentations that walk you through a lot of the processes. You can download a FULL 30 day evaluation copy and anything you develop in that time is legally yours.
I own Mere Mortals and have checked out a number of other products and I have to say the latest version of Ironspeed is incredibly slick and for about $800 for the developer edition and a year of maintenance ( i.e. you get the new version for VS 2005 ) I have no problem with the idea i can make the money back in a day.
If you check it out, let me know what you think. I bought it in November but have been up to my ears and only playing with it at this point.
( oh, if you read reviews, any version prior to 2.1 is about as different from 2.1 as VFP 8.0 is from 6.0 )
>I am currently taking the steep and long climb up the .NET learning curve and am considering fundemental design issues as I gain code skills. At this I can develop the simple UI controlled applications as presented in the walkthrus, but I am interested in developing or purchasing a sound n-tier framework. It appears that developing a n-tier framework can provide me with months if not years of work. I think the better way to go is to leverage a third party tool for this purpose.
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>I know that MM.Net is highly regarded on this site, and I have been studying the CSLA business objects model. I also have reviewed the Microsoft Enterprise library.
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>It seems that the Microsoft Enterprise library is a programmer convenience, and not a full framework. The CSLA seems robust for business objects but lacks the convenience features of the Enterprise library. Does anyone know if these two tools have ever been combined? Can the best parts of the Enterprise library (Security, Caching, Configuration) be used in conjunction with CSLA.
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>I have requested a MM.Net eval so that I can see if it can satisfy my requirement for programmer convenience along with business / data encapsulation features.
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>Can anyone offer comments regarding these tools, or recommendations and experiences with other frameworks.
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>Thanks
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>Glenn Domeracki
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