I have been working very hard in the next version of Retina.NET and made some important advances regarding lazy load. Retina.NET now supports automatic lazy load of child collections and entities.

The later thanks to the cool Castle DynamicProxy. This little but very useful library is used also by NHibernate and other projects. I have only one remaining feature to complete regarding lazy load: entity lazy load within a child collection.

After i finish the lazy load stuff i'm going to attack the inheritance issue and later the Identity generation on the storage side.

I'm also willing to give some attention to other interesting/unfinished things like "SQL Batching", "Outer Joins", "Functions in Criteria", "Limiting rows in Criteria results", "An Object Reader", "Constraints Manager", and some others...

As time permits, some of those things maybe can make it into the next release. I think that maybe can be between one or two months from now (without taking into account non labor days, of course).

Best regards,

Andrés G Vettori
MCSE/MCSD/MCT
Leader of the C# Community of the Microsoft Users Group Argentina

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