CoNatural Blogging

CoNatural Components v1.8

Roger Torres — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 20:08:45 +0000

The latest CoNatural package was published last week. Visit http://conatural.codeplex.com to download the bits and source code. I’m updating the documentation with some examples for this version.

CoNatural Components v1.7

Roger Torres — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:04:01 +0000

CoNatural Components v1.7 released last week. Check out conatural.codeplex.com to get the latest bits. I’m also writing a quickstart tutorial in case you are new to these components.

Working on new features.

Roger Torres — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:11:01 +0000

The last couple of weeks, I have been working on new CoNatural.Data features with the goal to simplify the persistence of complex object structures. I always try to keep my DAL as basic as possible, with the majority of operations being performed by direct table to object mappings (Table Adapter Pattern), but there are scenarios [...]

CoNatural Components v1.6

Roger Torres — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:13:27 +0000

You can find the latest CoNatural Components (v1.6) Here. This version is mainly an upgrade to the Visual Studio AddIn, incorporating many new features like asynchronous wizards and support for T4 templates. If you are planning to use T4 to generate your CRUD commands and/or Model types from SQL tables, I’m providing basic templates, but [...]

CoNatural Components v1.5 Released to CodePlex

Roger Torres — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:16:15 +0000

I just released version 1.5 to CodePlex. You can find the latest binaries, source code, and release notes there. This version supports new data types, contains new optimized type materializer/mapper classes, and improved visual studio add-in. Let’s say you need to start a new data centric application from scratch. For simplicity, we will create a new [...]

New CoNatural Components 1.4 Released to CodePlex

Roger Torres — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:11:33 +0000

This morning I released a new version of the CoNatural Components (version 1.4) to the CodePlex repository. There are some significant changes to CoNatural.Data, so existing code will require some modifications in order to compile with this version. The main theme is the re-factoring work started in v1.3 to follow interface oriented programming practices in [...]

CoNatural Components 1.3 Notes

Roger Torres — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:21:22 +0000

This weekend I updated the CodePlex repository with the latest build (1.3) and source code. All source code files/links have been removed from this Blog — a lot of broken links ;-(, so there is only one valid repository (CodePlex). Note that the latest changes to the framework will break old code, and the examples [...]

CoNatural.Data v1.3 just released.

Roger Torres — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:05:05 +0000

I just released a new version of the CoNatural.Data components (version 1.3). You can find the latest source code at http://conatural.codeplex.com. This version required some code refactoring to support multiple CoNatural command factories in a single application. A command factory is just a concrete implementation of a mechanism to translate CoNatural commands to the internal [...]

CoNatural Components Visual Studio AddIn

Roger Torres — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:22:41 +0000

This is just a quick note to let you know that today I uploaded the first functional version of the CoNatural Data Visual Studio AddIn to CodePlex (http://conatural.codeplex.com). The main feature is a wizard to import existing stored procedures as CoNatural Commands. Users will be able to select stored procedures from a data source, and [...]

CoNatural Components - CodePlex Project

Roger Torres — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:42:38 +0000

I just published a CodePlex project to host the DAL and Asynchronous framework I have been presenting in this blog. This will allow me to track issues and manage releases the right way. Thanks to the readers who suggested this option. You can find the project here: CoNatural Components Please note that I made the following modifications [...]