Dave Hawes' slide deck for his presentation on LLBLGen Pro

1. The Devevning ORM Showdown! Dave Hawes http://blog.davehawes.com @davehawes

2. Coming up... A brief history of the tool Where you can get it from How is it used Where I have used it What are it’s good points What are it’s bad points Things I think people should know about

3. A brief history of the tool Created by Solutions Design Established product, over 5 years old FransBouma is lead developer, a MVP (he knows his beans) @FransBouma

4. Where you can get it from The LLBLGen Pro websitehttp://www.llblgen.com Pricing 1 to 2 - EUR 249.00 3 to 5 - EUR 219.00 6 to 10 - EUR 199.00 11 to 20 - EUR 189.00 More than 20 - EUR 179.00

5. How is it used Uses the database schema of 1 or more databases as its domain model Lists all Tables and Views as entities which can optionally be added to your code gen project as Entities Lists Stored Procedures which can be added as Actions Generate .Net DAL based on 1 of 2 templates

6. LLBLGen Pro generates the complete data-access tier and a business objects tier, utilizing powerful O/R mapping technology and a flexible task-based code generator. GUI BL LLBLGen Pro Database

7. DAL and business objects are immediately available. Percentages of the total number of man-hours x 30 % 80% GUI x 40 % 20% BL x 30 % 0% DAL Database

8. LLBLGen In Action – Create Database

9. Model In Sql Server

10. Point LLBLGen at Database

11. Create Entities From Tables

12. Hit Generate and get your .Net project

13. Out of the Box Database Support SqlServer 7/2000/2005/2008 Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g MySql 4.x/5.x IBM DB2 7.x/8.x /9.x driver Firebird 1.x/2.x PostgreSql 7.4+/8.x Sybase ASE Sybase ASA Microsoft Access 2000/XP/2003/2007 driver

14. Azure When I last checked when using my Azure CTP account, LLBLGen DALs would connect and run against a single Sql Azure database but could not use it as the domain model.

15. .Net Versions and Languages Support for multiple .NET versions:Generated code supports .NET 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5, CF.NET 1.0, 2.0, 3.5 and generated Visual Studio.NET project files are compatible with Visual Studio.NET 2002/2003/2005/2008. Languages supported:All functionality is supported in both C# and VB.NET.

16. More... Customers have access to the SDK and full source code for all parts of LLBLGen Pro except for the designer. The SDK can be used to customize the various subsystems of LLBLGen Pro.

17. Features Auditing Authorization Validation Flexible concurrency management Transparent authorization and auditing Deep, fine grained validation framework Efficient, tunable, querying system Distributed systems (SOA) support In-memory filtering and sorting of entity graphs See full list here: http://www.llblgen.com/pages/features.aspx

18. Where I have used it My website adventure: http://www.skillbook.co.uk http://www.tcbooker.com http://www.safetytrainingnetwork.co.uk Many small apps based on Access Creating a webservice sitting between Oracle and Microsoft Crm

19. Good Points Very very easy to use Is owned an run by a ‘Product company’ Very clear roadmap Very good support from both community and company Very extensible (if required) Encourages good database design

20. Bad Points Hmmm, struggled to come up with any

21. LLBLGen 3 this year Lots of new features including: model first development To support Nhibernate Entity Framework LINQ To SQL

22. Summary It is a very easy to use product Implements latest .Net coding techniques Supports a wide range of databases Professional and Community support Clear Roadmap for the product Inexpensive for the benefits it returns

23. Thank you for your time Questions? Dave Hawes http://blog.davehawes.com @davehawes