Frans Bouma's blog

Since the first commit into the v5.0 fork back in the Fall 2014, we’ve been hard at work to make LLBLGen Pro v5.0 a worthy successor of the highly successful v4.x version. Today, we’ve released our hard work in beta, feature complete form: LLBLGen Pro v5.0 beta is now available.

It’s been a while and I said before I wouldn’t post anything again regarding data-access benchmarks, but people have convinced me to continue with this as it has value and ignore the haters. So! Here we are. I expect you to read / know the disclaimer and understand what this benchmark is solely about (and thus also what it’s not about) in the post above.

We’ve released the second CTP for LLBLGen Pro v5.0! Since the first CTP which was released back in March, we’ve been hard at work to implement features we wanted for v5.0. It’s taken a bit longer than expected as the main feature, Derived Models (more on that below), turned out to be a bigger feature than we initially thought and it affected more aspects of the designer than anticipated at first. Nevertheless, I’m very happy with the result, as it turned out even better than I imagined.

We’ve released LLBLGen Pro  v5.0 CTP 1! It’s a Community Technical Preview (CTP) of the upcoming v5.0 which is in development since fall 2014. The CTP is open for all v4.x customers (it’s in the customer area, in the v4.2, betas section) and comes with a time-limited license which expires on June 1st, 2015. As this isn’t a full beta, (much) more features are added before beta hits.

I caved. For years I’ve denied requests from customers to publish the LLBLGen Pro runtime framework assemblies on nuget, for the reason that if we had to introduce an emergency fix in the runtimes which also required template changes, people with dependencies on the nuget packages would have a problem. While this might be true in theory, in practice it’s so uncommon that this will happen, it more and more turned into an excuse.

It’s likely you’ve heard about Microsoft’s release of the .NET Core source code, their announcement of ASP.NET vNext and accompanying PR talk. I’d like to point to two great articles first which analyze these bits without being under the influence of some sort of cool-aid: “.NET Core: Hype vs. Reality” by Chris Nahr and “.NET Core The Details - Is It Enough?” by Mike James.

This morning I read the blog post 'Life with a .NET' by Jon Wear. It's about leaving .NET / the Microsoft platform for the great unknown 'outside the Microsoft world'-universe, and it's a great read.

This is a reply to "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL" by Geoff Wozniak.