what is subsonic?

Question

I'm lost here, can someone explain to me what subsonic is?

is it a code generator type tool?

Answer 1

"SubSonic is A Super High-fidelity Batman Utility Belt that works up your Data Access (using Linq in 3.0), throws in some much-needed utility functions, and generally speeds along your dev cycle."

Depending on how you use it, it does involve code generation (t4 templates used to create classes that represent your database objects).

Answer 2

This website, Wikipedia, tells me its an ORM (Object-Relational Mapper)

Answer 3

As it's creator Rob Conery says, it's the Swiss Army Knife of ORMS.

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If you haven't go to SubSonic's site and watch some of the tutorials. You find that it is easy to become in under 30 minutes.