Wednesday 5 September 2012

Code Generators and ORMs for .NET

TierDeveloper
  1. Free, not trial
  2. It uses repository pattern to generate the data access
  3. It generates the UI Elements, data access, everything.
  4. Supports creating web, windows, etc applications.
  5. Perhaps the quickest way to build an application!
ADO.NET Entity Framework
  • Visual Studio needed
  • An ORM tool
ASP.NET Dynamic Data
  • Easily and quickly creating data centric web applications from a database.
  • Supports LING to SQL or LINQ and Entity Framework
  • Generates also the UI elements at runtime.
Commercial ones:

Code Complete

Code Smith