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bala3569
bala3569

Reputation: 11000

Which orm you would recommend for a beginner moving from ado.net?

Which orm you would recommend for a beginner moving from ado.net?... Thus far used ado.net stored procedures with asp.net and now like to move with an orm.. Any suggestion..

Upvotes: 3

Views: 237

Answers (6)

kervin
kervin

Reputation: 11858

Entity Framework

Definitely try that out. Solid support from Microsoft themselves, support for Many-to-Many relationships, eSQL lets you at the lower layers, etc.

Upvotes: 0

SimonF
SimonF

Reputation: 2715

I'd second the LINQ2SQL option if you're using SQL Server.

LINQ2SQL:

  • is easy to learn, with lots of guidance available online;
  • has good tooling for design and debugging in Visual Studio; and
  • provides adequate performance for all but the most extreme of situations (StackOverflow uses it for data access, for example).

There have been rumours of its demise for a while, but Microsoft's market research seems to show more developer support than for Entity Framework which, whilst arguably more powerful, is also more complex. LINQ skills are transferable to other ORMs too, with options for LINQ2Entities (for Entity Framework) and, I believe, support from SubSonic also.

Upvotes: 0

marc_s
marc_s

Reputation: 754268

At the risk of sounding odd - why not http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb425822.aspx??

Yes, I know - Microsoft has officially said there wouldn't be much more development on it - even though it was bugfixed and enhanced in .NET 4. It's still in .NET 4 - so it'll be around for at least 3-5 years. It's easy to use - much easier than NHibernate - with a visual designer and code generation.

It's simple and easy to understand, and it can give you a great intro to using an ORM.

Once you've learned, internalized, and understood the principles, you can always move on to a more enterprise-ready solution, like NHibernate, or Entity Framework v4.

See Scott Guthrie's excellent blog post series on Using Linq-to-SQL for a great intro, or check out the Nerddinner tutorial which showcases ASP.NET MVC and Linq-to-SQL.

Upvotes: 1

James Westgate
James Westgate

Reputation: 11444

NHibernate is currently one of the most popular ORM's, but Microsoft has been busy working on Entity framework. In time this may become the most popular and the best simply because it comes with .Net Framework.

Upvotes: 0

aoj
aoj

Reputation: 196

NHibernate is nice, but it does require a bit more configuration for the ORM (even though fluent NHhibernate is quite nice).

I have heard that beginners in .NET ORM's have had quite good success with Subsonic: http://www.subsonicproject.com/.

Upvotes: 4

TomTom
TomTom

Reputation: 62093

NHibernate. The new development branch - much better support for LINQ than the current released versions.

Upvotes: 1

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