Re: Building Windows fat clients

[johnf <jfabiani(at)yolo(dot)com>]

On Wednesday 19 September 2007 10:19, Scott Ribe wrote:
> I'm asking this group because we tend to think alike wrt to data modeling
> and separation of concerns ;-)
>
> Any recommendations on ORM libraries for new Windows development? The last
> time I started anything from scratch was over 10 years ago, and the "state
> of the art" seemed to be to smash everything together into event handlers
> on GUI objects. Ugh. I pulled the M of the MVC out into separate coherent
> classes and implemented a *very* simple ORM, leaving the VC mostly
> conflated in the event handlers--which is not too bad since this app will
> never need to be cross-platform.
>
> So the dev tool was discontinued, some closed-source libraries are getting
> less and less compatible by the year, and we're going to rewrite. Where to
> start? It's a custom Windows-only app, only installed at one site. Using
> .NET would be fine. C# or C++ would be most-preferred language choices,
> although we could suck it up and use Java. I don't want to put VB on the
> table.
>
> Leaning toward Visual Studio .NET because I know it will be around (in
> whatever morphed form) for a while; but also considering Borland's
> supposedly revitalized C++ tools because I used C++ Builder with success
> back when MS C++ compilers were still awful. I should probably mention that
> the Windows apps, with the exception of one complicated "explore customer's
> entire history here" screen, are pretty simple; the complexity is in
> reports and stored procedures.
>
> Suggestions where to start?
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-- 
John Fabiani