Devart is glad to announce the new beta of LinqConnect 3.0. New version of LinqConnect offers you fluent mapping support.
luent mapping provides the following advantages over XML and attribute mapping:
- Unlike attribute mapping, fluent mapping does not modify entity classes, allowing them not to be persistence-aware.
- Application code performs mapping, so mapping is always checked for errors during compilation.
- Mapping can be easily modified at run-time. For example, different DBMS can be used for persistance depending on the application settings.
LinqConnect does not limit the use of the fluent mapping to the Code First aproach. If you want to use a legacy database, or you already have an existing model, there is no need to write the mapping code manually. Entity Developer includes Fluent mapping code generation templates, which allow you to utilize all the advantages of the fluent mapping together with benefits of visual model design and Model First/Database First design approaches. Design the model in the way you like, and Entity Developer will generate both entity classes and the fluent mapping code for you.
Devart development team
http://www.devart.com/linqconnect/