
Object-relational mapping (ORM) has been a gray area in Microsoft development for many years. It’s not that Microsoft language developers didn’t understand ORM; in fact, the opposite is true, as is exemplified by the glut of third-party .NET ORM tools on the market. The struggle has come more from the lack of native tools with the object-oriented and object-persistence capacity to effectively work in this arena. With the inception of .NET, Microsoft overcame the first obstacle by developing an object-oriented environment and framework. The second obstacle, the native object persistence layer, is only now being realized with the introduction of the upcoming data access enhancements in Visual Studio 2008. The gray area is no longer gray, and the .NET developers of the world finally have the native tools required to build modular, reusable data access layers....
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