CoNatural Components Visual Studio AddIn

Roger Torres - June 25th, 2009
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This is just a quick note to let you know that today I uploaded the first functional version of the CoNatural Data Visual Studio AddIn to CodePlex (http://conatural.codeplex.com). The main feature is a wizard to import existing stored procedures as CoNatural Commands. Users will be able to select stored procedures from a data source, and apply naming conventions to generate commands in a folder structure.

I’m currently using this wizard in a project I’m migrating from regular ADO.NET with stored procedures to the CoNatural.Data framework. This client is very happy now that he doesn’t have to maintain stored procedures detached from the main source control system.

Note that this version only supports Visual Studio 2008 C# projects and the .NET 3.5 framework. The only data source supported is Sql Server 2005/2008.

CoNatural Components - CodePlex Project

Roger Torres - June 14th, 2009
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I just published a CodePlex project to host the DAL and Asynchronous framework I have been presenting in this blog. This will allow me to track issues and manage releases the right way. Thanks to the readers who suggested this option.

You can find the project here: CoNatural Components

Please note that I made the following modifications to the original CoNatural.Data component:

  • The IDbProvider interface was simplified.
  • The implementation of the Sql Server provider was moved to a new assembly named CoNatural.Data.SqlServer

There are other minor (performance related) modifications, but this should be transparent to the users.