Anybody aware of a best practices or example project out there that uses ASP.NET MVC and LLBLGEN (selfservicing or adaptor)? Possibly something similar to S#arp Architecture.
I'm new to MVC and I'm constrained to using LLBLGEN.
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Why don't you read some of the articles about implimenting (for instance) NHibernate in ASP.NET MVC? Unless LLBLGEN takes a completely different approach (and I'm not sure that it doesn't, but would be very suprised) then the principles will be very similar. In other words, it won't of course teach you how to use LLBLGEN, but will give you some best practices for ORM use with MVC.
There are some articles for instance here: http://nhforge.org/
UpTheCreek
2010-01-26 07:02:53
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I would love to see a detailed answer to this question, specially highlighting the Adapter model in LLBLGen.
my implementation is by far not necessary "best practice", but works in a real life scenario.
I used:
- LLBLGen Self Servicing in business objects.
- ModelView (MV) objects in ASP.NET MVC
- AutoMapper to "flat" llblgen entities to modelviews.
- StructureMap to control the bloating :)
ref: AutoMapper
Sarmaad
2010-01-27 04:50:35
I recently completed a MVC/LLBL project with a very similar approach. However, I'm curious what you meant by flattening the llblgen entities. Does this mean you took the relational entities and put them in a tabular data structure like a datatable?
Jace Rhea
2010-01-29 17:30:57
I'm assuming you both had to create your own BL layer. Is the following an accurate picture of your project architecture. project.BL (manually created), project.DAL (llblgen generated), project.MVC (controllers, views). I assume you passed llblgen entities between the projects/layers/tiers. What about validation? Anything cool done here (xVal, etc...)?
vince
2010-01-30 08:19:40
We started with adapter and I kind of wish we could have used self-servicing (to make our model more domain driven). Alas, we needed it to be cross-database, so there was no other option.
Jess
2010-08-02 18:57:13
+2
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See this thread on our forum for additional templates to make this easy: http://www.llblgen.com/tinyforum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=17343
Frans Bouma
2010-02-22 14:31:28