Question
Has anyone used this ORM?
Critiques/Praise? I work in an office that is heavily invested in other telerik venues and I would like to know more about their newest product and whether or not it should be avoided.
Solution
I'm testing it, the free Express version.
Pros
- Performance (caching, lazy load etc. out of the box)
- Easy integration
- Great VS.NET integration, wizards
- Cool community
Cons
- Missing real distributed architecture support and patterns
- Wizards hide configuration files and sometimes you must fix thing with hand
- SQL CE support still missing
Chris is right, but Entity Framework works like beta, and OA has LINQ support too.
OTHER TIPS
Personally, I think .net's Linq and it's entity framework are the best since sliced bread. I also use telerik a lot and look into everything that they make but ORM doesn't compare to M$ .NET Linq.
Chris
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