We believe that the fastest way to learn how to use an OpenAccess model in your ASP.NET MVC 3 application is to watch a video tutorial. Therefore we have prepared some videos, guiding your OpenAccess ORM integration in an MVC project step by step.   Of course, there are different approaches to that based on your needs and personal preferences – you might want to use the strong capabilities of our Visual Designer Database-First scenario to create your Domain Model or you can map everything using our Fluent Mapping API. In any case, each of the dedicated video series will guide you through the...

  As a response to your constant requests for sample projects demonstrating the best practices of using OpenAccess ORM in web projects, we have released some of the new and updated samples before Q1 2012 so that you can benefit from them immediately.   MVC developers will be happy to know that along with the MVC 2 example “MVC Forum”, we are now offering two solutions demonstrating MVC 3 usage with Fluent API or an .rlinq Domain Model – whichever approach you prefer. In addition, you can see an implementation using the Razor view engine as an alternative of the default one. Find the...

I want to thank everyone that joined me on Monday for the What’s New in Q3 2011 for Data Tools webinar.  We had a lot of great questions, and saw many of the new awesome features available in Telerik Reporting and OpenAccess ORM for Q3.  In such a short time span it is not possible to cover everything; so make sure to stay tuned to my blog, or the team blog.  Over the next few weeks we will cover even more of the awesome Q3 features! For those of you that missed out on the fun, the webinar is now live on Telerik...

With the Q3 2011 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM we introduced three connection pool types which are explained in this blog post. In this blog post we will have a look at the connection pooling behavior of the Oracle driver and what setting to be used when we want to use Telerik OpenAccess ORM with Oracle databases.   Which setting for Oracle and why? When we want to use Oracle as our backend, it is advisable to use the connection pool type Open Access Connection Pool with OpenAccess Connection Management or the Ado Connection Pool setting. When using one of the two settings, we...

Before Q3 2011 was live we have introduced you one of the major new functionalities you can find in the release – the new Stored Procedure Editor. It is the tool that allows us now to present our stored procedure support as feature complete. Along with the visual interface the Editor is offering, we have enhanced the functionality that was available in previous OpenAccess ORM versions generating automatically methods in the OpenAccessContext that are calling stored procedures. The old version of this code generation used to produce methods such as this one: // Old code generation public object[] GetCarsDetails(string carMake) {     SqlParameter parameterCarMake = new SqlParameter("CarMake",...