Re: Building Windows fat clients

I'm asking this group because we tend to think alike wrt to data modeling

and separation of concerns ;-)

Any recommendations on ORM libraries for new Windows development? The last

time I started anything from scratch was over 10 years ago, and the "state

of the art" seemed to be to smash everything together into event handlers on

GUI objects. Ugh. I pulled the M of the MVC out into separate coherent

classes and implemented a *very* simple ORM, leaving the VC mostly conflated

in the event handlers--which is not too bad since this app will never need

to be cross-platform.

So the dev tool was discontinued, some closed-source libraries are getting

less and less compatible by the year, and we're going to rewrite. Where to

start? It's a custom Windows-only app, only installed at one site. Using

.NET would be fine. C# or C++ would be most-preferred language choices,

although we could suck it up and use Java. I don't want to put VB on the

table.

Leaning toward Visual Studio .NET because I know it will be around (in

whatever morphed form) for a while; but also considering Borland's

supposedly revitalized C++ tools because I used C++ Builder with success

back when MS C++ compilers were still awful. I should probably mention that

the Windows apps, with the exception of one complicated "explore customer's

entire history here" screen, are pretty simple; the complexity is in reports

and stored procedures.

Suggestions where to start?

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