alt.net mentioned on Hanselminutes this week

Justin Collum

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Jan 7, 2012, 5:17:23 PM1/7/12

to Portland ALT.NET

Starts at about 12:00. Demis Bellot (sp?) is the guest. They discussed:

- do the alpha-geeks really respect the high level frameworks that MS has built?

- are the alt.net types just building their own ad-hoc frameworks?

http://hanselminutes.com/300/framework-series-service-stack-with-demis-bellot

The Service Stack that he's talking about sounds intriguing: http://www.servicestack.net/. Hate the name, but I'm funny that way.

Allen Newton

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Jan 16, 2012, 5:17:46 PM1/16/12

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Sharing positive feedback with this group…

Today I moved the service layer of my application away from Entity Framework/WCF/DomainService to www.ServiceStack.net. It is really nice to work with. I tried using Entity Framework with a Domain Service and it had me so locked into the required pattern I could not get simple stuff to work. Service Stack makes it really easy to write web services against a SQL database. The database can also be created using a code first approach. WCF is still good for the resume and a day job. But for projects that I architect, I’m using Service Stack.

Thanks very much for this link. I heard about it first on this email thread.

Cheers,

Allen

Justin Collum

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Jan 16, 2012, 5:56:39 PM1/16/12

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Nice, you should make some notes and come to a meeting to discuss it. I'm considering taking a job where they're evalutating ORMs and having another valid alternative to EF would be great.