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Hi, Since 2 months, I search actively to find the best ORM that we will be use for years in our project. The two products that have retain our attention is LigthSpeed and OpenAccess. LigthSpeed have win the battle in many things like a powerful designer and the integration of the concepts introduce in Domain Driven Development described by Eric Evans. However, OpenAccess have a really big advantage that I have not found with LightSpeed: Documentation. The problem is that the documentation of LightSpeed have few examples of use Linq query. If I must contact support everytime I have a query to build, my team will lost very precious time. The second and I will wait for version 3 because it is only available to registered users is full support for linq. In that, I mean a query build like with Linq to SQL, not a vendor build-in language. If this two features will not be available in the futur, I will choose OpenAccess because documentation and full Linq support is for me one of the greatest things that an ORM must have in 2009. Mindscape, impressed me and I will be yours forever. |
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Hi Samuel, Thanks for the feedback. We'd be keen to hear what you'd like to see in terms of improved LINQ documentation: we tend to think of LINQ as part of the C# or Visual Basic language, rather than something we need to document ourselves, but it sounds like we need to do a better job here. What sort of things are you looking for: examples of the LINQ syntax, end-to-end samples using LINQ as their query language, extra info about more advanced features like joining and grouping...? We definitely don't want you to have to "contact support every time you have a query to build," so we're keen to know where the documentation is falling short! Regarding LINQ support, the LINQ support in the free and retail editions is identical, and that will still be true in v3. And in both cases it allows you to build your queries like with LINQ to SQL, not using the LightSpeed built-in language. But you're right, the version 3 beta, which significantly improves our LINQ support, is currently available only to registered users. In the meantime, if there are queries you want to run that aren't supported in LightSpeed 2 we'd love to see examples so we can add them to our test suite. We can't guarantee to support absolutely everything (we've see some pretty complex LINQ queries!) but every test case helps! Thanks again for the feedback and we hope we'll succeed in addressing your concerns. |
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