GUI for NHibernate

UnquaLe · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2005 4:06 pm

Hey,
I have started to do a userinterface for Nhibernate in vs.net 2003
my goal is it will connect to db and it will create our persisted classes and mapping files.. with relations...

but I would like to do it with a team...

I dont know what u think about that ?

KPixel · **Posted:** Sat May 14, 2005 1:08 pm

UnquaLe wrote:

it will connect to db and it will create our persisted classes and mapping files.. with relations...

There are already some templates in MyGeneration and CodeSmith doing this job pretty well... (you can find the MyGeneration one in its web site, but I don't remember where I saw the CodeSmith template)

UnquaLe · **Posted:** Sat May 14, 2005 3:15 pm

yeah I know them.
but there will be a toolbox in vs.net.
it wil generate ur *.hbm.xml files..
and when u change ur db schema.. it will detect that and *.hbm.xml files and classes will be effected..

my dream was that : )

KPixel · **Posted:** Sat May 14, 2005 3:50 pm

Nice dream :wink:

:idea: What you can do is a toolbox that detect changes in the DB schema and call console generator of MyGeneration/CodeSmith using their template :)
It will not require too much work...

tinomen · **Posted:** Mon May 16, 2005 5:28 pm

There is also ObjectMapper.com. It isn't as customizable as the templates. Not sure there is much need for a automated generator, that can be scary for those working on a legacy DB that requires tweeks in the mapping files. I like OM's idea of creating a model that allows you to work on the tables without having to reload the schema until a change occurs. Unfortunately it is very slow on large DBs.

Guest · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:16 pm

I have been looking for a generator. MyGeneration is cool, but I don't like the editor. I would rather work in vs.net. You might be able to access the myMeta classes directly in vs.net. To bad Nvelocity is not going so good. I was thinking a c#/nvelocity version of middlegen would be great.

gekannt · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:21 am

Agreed, I do wish the MyGeneration editor was not quite so awful, or that they would set it up so that templates could be edited in VS.net. Still, it's just a tool; the output is the important thing, and (after a not-unreasonable amount of tweaking) I'm pretty happy with the output.

Pilotbob · **Joined:** Mon May 16, 2005 2:15 pm **Posts:** 59

gekannt wrote:

Agreed, I do wish the MyGeneration editor was not quite so awful, or that they would set it up so that templates could be edited in VS.net. Still, it's just a tool; the output is the important thing, and (after a not-unreasonable amount of tweaking) I'm pretty happy with the output.

Have you guys looked at code smith? What about just plain old XSLT?

BOb

Pilotbob · **Joined:** Mon May 16, 2005 2:15 pm **Posts:** 59

Codus also looks like a fairly mature project that generates O/R Mapping artifacts. It claims to support NHibernate.

http://www.adapdev.com/codus/