Employee Starter Kit like O/R Mapper or business entity generator

[sangam56]

hi all.i have downloaded and studied the asp.net employee starter kit. I liked the way the business layer is created. it is too much time consuming to hand code all the business layer classes for so many objects of my newly started asp.net web application. Anyone there knows the best O/R mapper or business entity generator resembling or near to the structure of employee starter kit? I haven't found any such over Internet. Kindly help me. Thanks to all.

[mbmccormick]

I'd recommend that you take a look at two things...

One of the best business frameworks, in my opinion, is the Component Scaled Logical Architecture (known as CSLA). It is so easy to use, yet provides the advanced functionality you will need as your applications grow. You can find more about it here: http://www.lhotka.net/

The other thing you should look into is CodeSmith. This tool lets you create or use community-created (templates for CSLA already exist) templates and then use these to generate your classes. Basically you create your database first, and then it will use the fields in your database to create your classes. You can find out more about it here: http://www.codesmithtools.com/

I hope this helps...

[sangam56]

first of all thank you. and i am quite sorry i am responsing late. i have tested codesmith. i like it. the only problem is my company would not be ready to pay for it. any way, i will take a look at CSLA. currently i am hardcoding in the way the employee starter kit gives. any other suggestion is welcome.thank you.