MBR BootFX

Since starting my new job at MBRIT Ltd (www.mbrit.com) I have been extensively working on BootFX our open source framework for .NET development.

The basis of the framework, like most frameworks, is to offer database connectivity. Virtually every business application needs to talk to a database, and virtually every time on Windows it’s SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL. Therefore most of the LOCs in BootFX are data access code. My preferred data access method has always been Object Relational Mapping, specifically with a data-first approach of mapping tables to objects, and so that’s the environment where BootFX runs best. BootFX also includes a tool for connecting to the database and generating code for you.

In addition, BootFX also includes some UI components and management functionality, such as logging and exception reporting and handling. All good stuff.

To those who may have already used it I have made some big changes to DBUtil, which is now a lot more polished. We've also been working on some AJAX/Web service stuff which is almost ready. There's some goo in the codebase to do some of it.

I'm keen to start pushing this a bit more in the community because I feel with this build it's a bit more "prime time", so if anyone is interested in helping me get a bit of a buzz around it please do let me know.

You can download the latest version from sourceforge at the following address: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootfx/