Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Creating a Reference Project – Introduction

How do you try out new features in a framework or implement a design pattern you haven't tried before? Are you creating a very small and in no way realistic project? or are you implementing it on some codebase at work?

I must admit that I have done both and not always with a good result. What I have been missing is a realistic project that is complex enough to test this:

  • OR/Mappers. One-To-Many, Many-To-Many,  Self-Joined Tables, Component Mapping ….
  • None trivial object relations
  • UX – Master-Detail, Validation, MVVM …
  • Try out a new front-end like Silverlight
  • Try out a new ORM like Entity 4.0 (I am working with NH now)

I know that this is a very incomplete list, but it’s a start.

In the next post I will setup the database and then I will take it from there.

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