subsonic

Ugh… So after receiving hordes of spam comments through BlogEngine (even with Akismet set up), plus theme formatting issues, I decided to change over to another engine.  I need to re-do much of my content, anyway. I am on a .NET-based provider service, so using WordPress or Drupal was not in the cards.  I have installed and tried both.  Both are solid web applications, easy to set up and use.  I also tried setting up MovableType.  A horrid, HORRID beast.  If any of you out there who read this want to reaffirm or retort this claim, feel free,...

So, I have been using SubSonic on a project, and love it.  It is absolutely a fantastic quick-data-access-layer solution, and far, far easier to use than CodeSmith + netTiers.  However, one limitation that the CodeSmith + netTiers solution provided, which was very nice to have, are auto-generated enums from enum tables. I threw something together here which does the job.  I have my DAL generated by SubSonic in its own project, then have this run post-build, then ILMerge, to create a “final” DAL assembly that contains current table enums in it. Basically, the strategy was simple: use a...