I just spent the last 4 hours on Google, looking for a good ORM. LLBLGen came up quite often, but, frankly, mostly from 2008 to 2010. I found very little in terms of review or opinions in 2011 and 12.
But, your home page makes LLBL look pretty good. So, I thought I'd post here for some current opinions.
I've been programming, professionally, in VBA for MS Access for 17 years, but I'm pretty new to Dot Net.
I'm creating a VB WinForms in Visual Studio 2010.
Data will be single user. I'll probably go with the new LocalDB in SQL Server 2012.
I'm just looking for a quick and easy way to model data -- probably Data First -- and get reasonably good performance (it IS just a local, single user, after all) and make it easy for me to display data and perform CrUD operations.
I'm hoping to avoid a lot of digging into and customizing complex code in the process. I'd rather just use ADO and SQL, directly than have to do that.
I also don't want to spend days figuring out how to use the ORM.
I've looked at Telerik OpenAccess and on paper, it looks great. But, the documentation is so hard to follow, I may have to give up on that.
I haven't really looked into just sticking with Entity Framework, yet. But, that's an option, too.
Anyway, based on the above, how good a fit do you feel LLBLGen is for me?
Thanks!
