Question

I am creating an web app from scratch and was wondering if there is a free tool that would allow me to convert my tables into objects, these objects would have things like create, update and delete methods and allow me to customize or create additional methods, classes if i want. I was looking at netTiers http://www.nettiers.com/ , but the problem with that one is that I would need CodeSmith http://www.codesmithtools.com/product/generator which I do not have the kind of money to spend at this moment. Is there any other tool I could use and that is free?.

All the other applications i have created, I had to create all the layers myself, but if there is something free that I can use to help me save time and that you can advise me I would be very thankful for such advise.

Thank you

Answer 1

You know for a long time I also thought about using tools like this, until I came across the entity framework, it’s simple!

• create a connection to sql server
• find the table you want to model
• create a model file and open it (right click solution explorer, add, new item, select data, click ado.net entity data model)

Then you’ll run through a wizard to select the tables that you want to generate classes from.

Should be easy after that!