This session is an overview of the well-regarded ORM framework for Delphi which has a free edition for commercial use for Delphi 10.1 Berlin. The session was presented by Wagner Landgraf during CodeRage XI and this is a replay. The free edition is a limited time offer from TMS Software. According to the TMS Software website Aurelius brings all the benefits an application can obtain from using an ORM framework like: Productivity: Avoid complex SQL statements that can o...

I have just returned from my RAD Studio XE3 World Tour stops in Europe.  It was great to see so many young and old developers in London, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Heidelberg.  In two cities I was asked whether there were any Object Relational Mapping solutions for Delphi.  There are two Delphi ORM(s) that I know about: TMS Software's TMS Aurelius - commercial ORM.  White paper can be found at http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/manuals/Object-Relational%20Mapping%20with%20TMS%20Aurelius.pdf Delphi...

This morning, I saw two different posts from Rails developers who were newly learning ASP.NET MVC, both bemoaning the fact that ASP.NET MVC does not supply/force upon you one particular ORM. The dependency on ActiveRecord is, to my way of thinking, a shortcoming of Rails, which the Rails community is presently doing an exceptional job of fixing. The best way to learn from that mistake is to not repeat it. Yes, it is true that ASP.NET MVC does not force you to use one particular ORM. Yes, that...

In the past couple of weeks, I've had occasion to look fairly closely at the ADO.NET Entity Framework, and compare it to NHibernate.  Of course, before I even started, I went out and read what other people had to say on the subject.  Many people point to this post by Danny Simmons as approximating the "official" Microsoft position on the subject, and commenters around the web seem to focus specifically on what Danny calls "a [not yet delivered, but] much larger vision of an entity-aware data pl...