Frans Bouma's blog

I had the honor to be interviewed by Scott Hanselman for his great podcast Hanselminutes! Check out the full podcast here: The State of Object-Relational Mapping with Frans Bouma.

Yesterday, September 8th, it was 10 years ago we released the first LLBLGen Pro version, v1.0.2003.1 (see the blog post about that release). To celebrate this, we give everyone 10% discount when purchasing one or more licenses in the coming 10 days,  till September 17th, 2013! To get the discount, use the coupon code 10YEARS on the order form.

Yesterday we released the first beta of ORM Profiler v1.5! The new features are:

Let's first look at my attempts last year to get a Windows Store dev account. If you're in a TL;DR mood: it was a sucky experience and one has to jump through burning hoops to sign up.

Yesterday, a customer ran into a weird issue with our OData/WCF Data Services support in LLBLGen Pro: when an $expand directive was given which was more than one level deep, the service would only return the first level. $expand is OData's directive to eager load additional data into the data requested. So if I for example want to read the data of customer 'ALFKI' from the Northwind database and also that customer's orders, I'd issue this OData query:

This is the second post of a series about the new features in LLBLGen Pro v4.0, which was released on April 6th, 2013. Today I'd like to highlight a new major feature of the LLBLGen Pro Runtime Framework, our own ORM framework shipped with LLBLGen Pro, namely Resultset Caching.

We updated our data-access profiler ORM Profiler with a new .NET 4.5 specific interceptor dll. This interceptor, which is called SD.Tools.OrmProfiler.Interceptor.NET45.dll, can be found in the main installation folder of the ORM Profiler build we uploaded this week. If you're an ORM Profiler customer, please download the latest build from the customer area.

This is the first post of a series about the new features in LLBLGen Pro v4.0, which was released on April 6th, 2013. Starting with v4.0, the LLBLGen Pro designer is usable both as standalone (as it was before) and as an integrated designer in Visual Studio. I'll explain in this article what this integration is all about and what we had to do to make it work. If you want to know more about how to use this feature, please check out the manual page on this feature.