1. Michael Paladino Lead Application Developer EagleOne

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

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

4.  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

5.  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

6.  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

7.  One-Time  Download and install release 2.0.3 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

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

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

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

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

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

13.  Main Site: http://subsonicproject.com/http://subsonicproject.com/  CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/subsonichttp://www.codeplex.com/subsonic  Rob Conery: http://blog.wekeroad.com/http://blog.wekeroad.com/  Presentation Slides: http://www.fsdnug.org/previousMeetings.html http://www.fsdnug.org/previousMeetings.html

14.  Michael Paladino  Email: mpaladino@goeagleone.commpaladino@goeagleone.com  Blog: www.mpaladino.comwww.mpaladino.com  Twitter: www.twitter.com/mpaladinowww.twitter.com/mpaladino  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpaladinohttp://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpaladino  Fort Smith.NET User Group  www.fsdnug.org www.fsdnug.org