Hello,

In lue of ado.net vNext, I'm trying to figure out how to generate data access libarary for my C# project.

I would like to take a step by step approach:

1. Generate wrappers for my stored proces.

2. Generate data object classes (entity classes) from xml schema file.

3. Define mapping between the data object classes attributes and some how automate the population of the data objects.

4. I'd like to do most of this from the command line (I'd want to run it during the build).

Are there GAT code snippets out there that achieve any of these steps.

Where should I start?

Thanks

Houman

PS. I can't use datasets

Hi Houman -

Check out the Web Service Software Factory, available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/servicefactory. It does the majority of the things you've listed and is built on GAT/GAX.

Hope this helps

Tom

Thanks for the recommendation, I've seem a webcast of the service factory...

Tom, are you saying that I can take the service factory apart and only use a part of it? Is the service factory code 'open source'? In other words could I just use some of the recipies in the factory to make my own factory?

Because I don't want to use the service factory...it is too invovled for what I want to do...

Regards,

Houman

Hi Houman -

Yes the Service Factory ships with full source code, and you are free to customize it as much as you want. However you may not even need to do that, as the ASMX Service Interface and Data Access functionality are packaged as two distinct guidance packages within the Service Factory. By default we enable both of them when you start a new service-based application, but you can choose to enable just one or the other. So if you only care about data access, you should be fine to just enable the Data Access guidance package.

Hope this helps

Tom

Thanks Tom! I'll download it and try it...

Unfortunately, whenever I press markasanswer i get an error...I'll try later :-)

Regards,

Houman