Comments on: DevConnections Day 1 Wrap: Microsoft Day at a Microsoft Conference http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/03/27/devconnections-day-1-wrap-microsoft-day-at-a-microsoft-conference/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:00:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: wwb_99 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/03/27/devconnections-day-1-wrap-microsoft-day-at-a-microsoft-conference/#comment-212968 wwb_99 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:04:08 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1882#comment-212968 @ards: Well, someone has to be the M$ schill around here . . . @ards: Well, someone has to be the M$ schill around here . . .

]]> By: wwb_99 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/03/27/devconnections-day-1-wrap-microsoft-day-at-a-microsoft-conference/#comment-212967 wwb_99 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:03:23 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1882#comment-212967 Kind of middling rant/rave--I think loads of XML for this kind of task are unavoidable in this day and age. Reason being XML is easy to generate--and generation tools were demoed--and easy to write other tools to interface with. Not the least of which is Visual Studio as a schema-bound XML editor. It really is not too bad in a pinch. I should also add that the XML was very intelligible, unlike, say, the IIS 6.0 metabase XML. If I were the NHibernate folks, I would start looking hard at writing some mapping file generation utilities sooner rather than later . . . Kind of middling rant/rave–I think loads of XML for this kind of task are unavoidable in this day and age. Reason being XML is easy to generate–and generation tools were demoed–and easy to write other tools to interface with. Not the least of which is Visual Studio as a schema-bound XML editor. It really is not too bad in a pinch. I should also add that the XML was very intelligible, unlike, say, the IIS 6.0 metabase XML.

If I were the NHibernate folks, I would start looking hard at writing some mapping file generation utilities sooner rather than later . . .

]]> By: mrsmiley http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/03/27/devconnections-day-1-wrap-microsoft-day-at-a-microsoft-conference/#comment-212960 mrsmiley Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:53:34 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1882#comment-212960 <blockquote>It uses loads and loads of XML to get to where it is going</blockquote> Is this a good or bad highlight? As much as its touted as the answer to interoperability, its a bad in the you-know-what to code the data structures by hand. Are there tools for auto-generating these mapping files? That's one of the beefs I have with apps like N-Hibernate and friends.

It uses loads and loads of XML to get to where it is going

Is this a good or bad highlight? As much as its touted as the answer to interoperability, its a bad in the you-know-what to code the data structures by hand. Are there tools for auto-generating these mapping files? That’s one of the beefs I have with apps like N-Hibernate and friends.

]]> By: Ards http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/03/27/devconnections-day-1-wrap-microsoft-day-at-a-microsoft-conference/#comment-212898 Ards Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:54:24 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1882#comment-212898 You like Microsoft, do you? :) You like Microsoft, do you? :)

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