SubSonic
Wow. I’ve just hurt myself: I’ve just seen Rob Conery’s webcast about the little library he’s created for .NET 2.0 and myu jaw has opened so much all by itself, and not precisely yawning, that it has crashed against my desk.
As Conery himself says, he’s followed Ruby on Rails for creating SubSonic (previously known as Action Pack). SubSonic is a Zero Code DAL, or Data Access Layer. Just like in Ruby, complete with scaffolding.
Beware, SubSonic is not a .NET implementation of Ruby On Rails. That’s MonoRail. It’s not even an adaptation, because RoR is a complete framework with Modell-View-Controller , data access layer and all the works. SubSonic is just an amazing data access layer.
I haven’t got the time (yet) to play a little with it, but if you’d like to stop feeling envy while watching Rails webcasts or presentations, take a look at the Introduction to SubSonic webcast.
Beware you jaws.
Update.- I forgot to link this excellent introduction by Jon Galloway. I’m of the same opinion: Microsoft should hire Conery and include the ActionPack.dll as part of Atlas. Or for giving SubSonic MVC capabilities. Or doing something with this stuff.
