An Code Generation/Object-Relational Mapping Control/Component by Crainiate

Objecto uses some exciting new technologies to allow developers to focus on implementing business logic, not on creating repetitive code to define manage and access data. Objecto uses object persistence and managed database deployment to automatically keep an underlying database in sync with your application assemblies and to optimise the delivery of data to your middle tier.

Objecto is a framework of feature rich classes that are delivered with your application, not a developer tool. Other developers can modify and enhance your data driven application without access to the source code. No tools or mapping files are required.

Best of all, the standard edition of Objecto is totally free, supported by the Crainiate Community. Enterprise and source code editions are also available. Objecto is 100% managed code and runtime royalty free.

The following points list the benefits of using the Objecto Framework:

- Increase developer productivity by defining the structure of data in one place only.
- Automatically deploy data-driven applications and updates in a safe and controlled manner
- Create a framework of scalable, reusable and extensible business objects with built-in support for remoting and clustering
- Create customizable data driven applications which can be modified and enhanced by users and other developers without access to the source code.
- Far less dependence on specialized SQL Server skills
- No need for developer tools or mapping files, everything required is contained within the assembly
- Scalable design, built-in support for server clustering (Enterprise Edition only)

From a technical point of view, Objecto offers the following features:

- Define and modify the structure of your data using classes and attributes in Visual Studio 2005 or any other tool that supports .NET Framework 2.0 or later
- Persist objects seamlessly to an underlying database without writing repetitive data access code
- Inherit from a rich base class or implement a simple interface
- On the fly generation and intelligent reuse of stored procedures for all data access
- Encapsulate query logic into reusable query classes. Create fully object-orientated queries without the use of inline SQL.
- Fully supports object inheritance of persisted classes. Allows you to add properties to create more specialized objects.
- Stateless implementation for maximum scalability across multiple servers
- Built-in .NET remoting provider makes remoting easy to setup and deploy (Enterprise Edition only).