Is there any framework for Windows Forms, DB driven application development/prototyping?

c# database winforms frameworks prototyping
dolzenko picture dolzenko · Jan 19, 2009 · Viewed 12.7k times · Source

I'm writing simple database driven application, 80% of functionality is CRUD operations on about 15 tables. Coming from web development background I figured I can cover almost all of these CRUD cases with Rails scaffolding or say Django admins. So I started to look around for Rails/Django-like framework but for Windows Forms applications (ofcourse I understand that "rich client" application development significantly differs from a web development and I'm not expecting anything really similar).

I was surprised that except for a variety of ORMs (let's call it Model-layer) it seems like I'm left with little choice when it comes to View-Controller layer. Maybe I'm missing something?

PS. I evaluated Visual Studio DataSet Designer, but it seems to work only for the most simple cases, and requires additional code for any slightly nontrivial task.

(added) so far I've found:

  1. TrueView for .NET (thanks to Vijay Patel)
  2. NConstruct

Answer

littlegeek picture littlegeek · Jan 19, 2009

I would start to look at the Entity Framework if you can use .net3.5

Introducing the Entity Framework

How to: Bind Objects to Windows Form Controls (Entity Framework)

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