This article goes into detail on strategies for managing data relationships in the cache. It touches on managing many-to-one, one-to-one, and one-to-many relationships. It also discussed how to handle collections in the cache and maintain data integrity between a collection and its individual data elements. [Read more]
NCache lets you create a scalable distributed cache in the middle-tier so you can reduce expensive trips to the database and greatly improve your application performance. [Read more]
NCache lets you cache data closer to your application in the middle-tier so you can reduce expensive trips to the database. This in turns significantly speeds up your application. [Read more]
Caching greatly improves application performance because it reduces expensive trips to the database. But, if you want to use caching in your application, you must decide what to cache and where to put your caching code. [Read more]
TierDeveloper is an object relational mapping code generator for .NET. It lets you map business and data objects to your relational tables, embed SQL and stored procedure calls in them, and generate fully working code in C# or VB.NET. [Read more]
If you are developing an object oriented .NET application that has to talk to a database, you'll inevitably map objects to a relational model. [Read more]
Object oriented applications usually have inheritance as an important part of their design, including in their domain objects. [Read more]
The .NET framework provides a very flexible and powerful approach to databinding that cuts down a lot of redundant code and simplifies the development process significantly. [Read more]
Domain objects in an application represent the core data and business validation rules relating to it. And, domain objects are usually central to the entire application and used by most subsystems. [Read more]
So, why should you use any O/R mapping tool? I am not talking about a specific tool but rather all O/R mapping tools in general. [Read more]
O/R mapping tools are becoming more popular each day and people are realizing the productivity gain they provide to developers. [Read more]