I'm looking for an ORM that offers complete or near-complete LINQ support. LINQ to SQL - Supports about everything inside of LINQ (.Contains, Math.Log, etc) - Cannot eager load relationship properties without creating a new datacontext ADO.NET Entity Framework - Terrible LINQ support (lots of missing features). - Great mapping features...
What is the experience with LightSpeed? The comparison provided by Mindscape doesn't say too much about NHibernate. Lightspeed seems flexible, but I don't see much about performance. How well does Lightspeed perform? Also are there any drawbacks to using Lightspeed? ...
Hi, I have these two structures in my domain: Exercise (with subjects, solution, difficulty ext.) and Subject which has a name and a father subject. Subject is defined by its attributes so in that sense it's a value object, However even if my current data store has nothing associated with a particular subject, that subject existence sti...
Hello. I've been evaluating MindScape Lightspeed for the purpose of Model creation. So far I am satisfied. I was further looking for OOTB (actually some professional quality code) providers for MySQL for ASP.Net. I've come across 'dotconnect for MySQL' from Devart. This looks like fitting the bill for the latter requirement. It also has ...
Hello. I am evaluating Amazon SimpleDB at this time. SimpleDB is very flexible in the sense that it does not have to have table (or domain) schemas. The schema evolves as the create / update commands flow in. All this is good but while I am using a modeling tool (evaluating MindScape LightSpeed) I require the schema upfront, in order for...
Does anyone have an example of using LightSpeed with the Repository Pattern using interfaces and dependency injection? ...
I was just wondering, it seems like a trivial thing, but the question arises, does the web server compute compression on files for every request that is made? if so, that would be hell CPU heavy as the site grows, what are the possible work arounds if that is the case? I thought it would be nice to pre compress files and use some mod_re...
Hi Azure, probably ASP.NET Webforms. We're building a management interface for about 8 tables. Usual CRUD :-) 2 backend users, and doesn't need to look flash. We'd like to use Mindscape's LightSpeed as the ORM tool Question: Is Dynamic Data worth pursuing? (Mindscape have a connector to DD). We've also got the Telerik Suite which...