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CodeFluent Entities: Connection Strings
Fairly recently we had a big thread of questions regarding connection strings on our forums, so I thought I’d do a recap’ of how connection strings are handled in CodeFluent Entities. First it’s...
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CodeFluent Entities: Added SQL Server 2012 support!
Microsoft recently released to manufacturers its latest version of Microsoft SQL Server (Microsoft SQL Server 2012) and good news for our users: CodeFluent Entities supports SQL Server 2012! No changes...
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CodeFluent Entities: Initializing your application with data
In our previous posts, we’ve seen that from a single platform independent model (see CodeFluent Entities is not an ORM) you can generate continuously (see Continuous Generation) complete databases,...
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What’s CodeFluent Query Language?
CodeFluent Query Language (a.k.a. CFQL) allows you to write platform independent data accessing queries which producers (producer = code generator) will translate into optimized stored procedures. For...
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CodeFluent Entities Supports Multiple Database Systems
Persistence producers translate your platform independent model into scripts and deploy them on the specified database to create your persistence layer. Furthermore the persistence layer used is...
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Designing Databases with CodeFluent Entities: Names
As explained in previous posts, CodeFluent Entities is way more that an ORM: you’re not just mapping classes to database objects, instead you’re creating a model which will be translated into stuff....
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Designing Databases with CodeFluent Entities: Inheritance
CodeFluent Entities tries to reduce the impedance mismatch between relational worlds and object-oriented worlds as much as possible and a good example of this I guess is how CodeFluent Entities...
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Many to Many Relationships with CodeFluent Entities
Yesterday, Scott Allen posted on his OdeToCode.com blog a very interesting blog post named Many to Many Relationships with EF illustrating how to setup a many to many relationship with EF Code First...
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CodeFluent Entities: How to reuse existing stored procedures
In this post I’ll start from the NerdDinner application, which you can get from CodePlex (http://nerddinner.codeplex.com/). In the NerdDinner database I added the following sample stored procedure...
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Goodbye SQL-DMO!
Starting with build 671, SQL-DMO is not longer a requirement for the CodeFluent Entities SQL Server Producer. That’s good news! We have been relying on SQL-DMO for almost 7 years, and it has served us...
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How to work with existing database tables with CodeFluent Entities
Did you know that you could use CodeFluent Entities to work with existing database tables, such as the sys.object table for example, with zero code, and without modifying them? In this post, we will...
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Retrieve SQL Output parameters in your BOM with CodeFluent Entities
Let’s say you have an existing stored procedure that uses OUTPUT parameters to retrieve some data and you want to access it in your Business Object Model (BOM) as an object method. If you can...
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Defining type mappers when importing a database using the Importer Wizard
You can use the Importer Wizard to import an existing data base as a CodeFluent Entities model. You can access the Importer from the Modeler or the solution explorer on your CodeFluent Entities project...
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Writing a custom CodeFluent Entities aspect to encrypt/decrypt columns values...
Today, we will demonstrate how to automatically change the SQL code generated during the build process in order to encrypt and decrypt the values stored in the database columns. This is the answer to a...
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The new SQL Server Pivot Script producer
A new producer is available since the latest builds! Enter the “SQL Server Pivot Script” producer. This producer purpose is to allow you to deploy CodeFluent Entities-generated SQL Server databases on...
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Multi-database deployment with PowerShell and the Pivot Script Runner – Part 1
We are working on a solution designed with CodeFluent Entities, which stores and manages data within a SQL Server database created by the SQL Server Producer. Sometime in the past, we deployed this...
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Multi-database deployment with PowerShell and the Pivot Script Runner – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, we looked at using the PowerShell strengths to automate the process of updating several databases through the PivotRunner tool. Now, we want to go further and create a...
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Using LocalDB with CodeFluent Entities
With Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Microsoft has introduced a feature called LocalDB which is a new edition of SQL Express. LocalDB is created specifically for developers and it is much easier to install...
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SQL Server In-Memory OLTP
In-Memory OLTP comes with Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and can significantly improve OLTP database application performance. It is a memory-optimized database engine integrated into the standard SQL Server...
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Table-Valued Parameters: CFQL operators
CodeFluent Query Language (CFQL) allows to quickly create simple methods. CFQL provides support for common operations with Table Value Parameters. To show result of queries we will use the following...
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