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LLBLGen Overview (Special Edition) Video

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

A friend of mine told me someone tasked him with creating an O/R mapping tool. My first reaction was...well, of course, your company likes to reinvent the wheel, loves useless legacy technology, and is very anti-productivity. He said that nothing is easy to use and everything has useless error messages. So I of course reminded him of the great gift to humanity known as LLBLGen, which is very easy to use and is very clearly designed. I've mentioned LLBLGen to him before, but this time was a real marketing opportunity. (Actually, I'm very annoying about promoting .NET 2.0, Firefox, Gmail, and LLBLGen -- absolute life savers).

Anyways... I told him I would create a quick overview video of LLBLGen as a marketing pitch to his company. Well, the "quick video" turned out to be almost a half hour long. Err, yeah... So, I've decided to share this video with the rest of the world. It's actually not like my usual videos, so I'm marking this version as "Special Edition". I'll probably release the "final" version in the future.

Below is the link to the LLBLGen Overview (Special Edition) video.

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Solution Design or any Solution Design/LLBLGen product. The above video is in no way endorsed by Solution design and is unofficial in every sense of the word.

posted by David Betz at 3/21/2006 9:48 AM

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Comments (5)

Leeor Geva

I found your videos through google video. I like them because you go really fast. By the way, it just hit me that LLBL in LLBLGen stands for Logic Layer Business Layer. Ive been looking at this thing for the past 2-3 years not knowing what the heck it was. I used olero.net and now NHibernate. These tools are great, they save me lots of time and energy and make working against a database more productive. But I wonder why pay $270 when you get NHibernate for free? :)

4/16/2006 4:04:00 PM

David Betz

Well, they are nothing alike. You can't really compare them. It's like comparing the massiveness of Firefox (which has the components of an operating system) to IE (which is just an ActiveX web browser control thrown in a host). NHibernate is VERY manual. It's not a huge jump over ADO.NET when compared to the massiveness of LLBLGen. In NHibernate, you generate the code manually and you do all this stuff without a designer. I really don't see how it's worth it. Also, changes are manual. In LLBLGen it's like... here's my database, I want these tables... BAM... let me get on with some REAL work. Changes? OK, database refresh, BAM... again, back to real work. NHibernate is so much work to deal with, it's nowhere near free. Also, the LLBLGen docs alone are worth the money. $270 though... that's almost free in the corporate world—that’s much closer to free. Furthermore, Visual Studio 2005 costs much more than that.

4/17/2006 7:45:00 AM

Paul Schroeder

Great video, David - thanks for the contribution to the community!

5/5/2006 1:19:00 AM

James Mattheson

An excellent video set at a nice pace with good commentary - have you done any others for LLBLGEN with the latest version and / or a web application in Visual Studio? Perhaps with some work on many to many relationships?!

1/16/2008 10:15:40 PM

Vishal

I suppose the best video for LLBL . . . Thanks was great help

2/12/2008 11:24:42 PM

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