Michael Paladino Lead Application Developer EagleOne

 Lead Application Developer at EagleOne  Experience and interests:  Classic ASP .NET  SQL Server  Content Management Systems  Open source software  FSDNUG!

 Problems with standard ADO.NET data access  What is ORM?  What is SubSonic?  Setup  Basics  Web Form Controls  Other SubSonic Goodness  Summary / Resources

 Demo 1: Data access in code-behind  Requires duplication  Lots of hand-coding  No compile-time checking  Demo 2: Custom objects  Lots of hand-coding  No compile-time checking

 Object-Relational Mapping  Wikipedia:  “…programming technique for converting data between incompatible type systems in relational databases and object-oriented programming languages.”  Typically automated  Example.NET Implementations:  NHibernate  Wilson’s O/R Mapper  ADO.NET Entity Framework  LINQ to SQL

 ORM tool – Provides.NET objects that allow access to the underlying database.  Designed for web development but can be used in Windows Forms apps  Collection of web forms controls to speed up web development  Provides ability to track database changes  Supports SQL Server 2000 and 2005, MySQL, Oracle (SQLLite, SQLCE, PostGres coming soon)  Open Source

 One-Time  Download and install release Download  Setup toolbar buttons in Visual Studio  Add controls to Visual Studio toolbox  Per-Project  Add reference to SubSonic.dll  Update Web.config  Create _DB and _Generated folders

 Basic blog engine  Multiple authors, only one per post  Multiple categories per post  Comments  Simple editing  Database structure  SubSonic conventions SubSonic conventions

 ActiveRecord pattern  Working with single objects  ViewPost.aspx  Working with collections  Default.aspx  Add comments to ViewPost.aspx  Updating and deleting  EditPost.aspx

 Calendar Control – EditPost.aspx  Radio Buttons – EditPost.aspx  Dropdown – EditPost.aspx  ManyManyList – EditPost.aspx  Scaffold – Scaffold.aspx  Auto Scaffolding – AutoScaffolding.aspx  QuickTable – Sandbox.aspx

 Views – Sandbox.aspx  Stored Procedures – Sandbox.aspx  Query Tool – Sandbox.aspx  Partial Classes – Comment.vb  “Sugar” – Sandbox.aspx  DB Versioning  Template Customization

 SubSonic has the potential to greatly speed up database-driven web development  Future possibilities?

 Main Site:  CodePlex:  Rob Conery:  Presentation Slides:

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