Comments on: About Data Driven Websites and Object Relation Modeling

By: Rahul Mahboobani

Rahul Mahboobani — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:56:26 +0000

Hi, has anyone used the ASR module (http://trac.sitecore.net/AdvancedSystemReporter/). I want to write a Command that will change things in some Items.

As per the guide in http://trac.sitecore.net/AdvancedSystemReporter/wiki/Commands, it says all I have to do is write one method of the ICommand interface, but I cannot find this interface in the ASR dlls provided!? Is this a very old documentation, and if ICommand is deprecated then what do I use to write the command

Has anyone written Commands in ASR and can help?

(In particular, in the http://trac.sitecore.net/AdvancedSystemReporter/wiki/Commands, the picture shows a “References” section to enter the name of the class and dll assembly, where does that “references” even come from? A version of sitecore on another planet perhaps?

By: Altug

Altug — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:28:39 +0000

Hi Alex,
How did you install Sitecore on Windows 7? I am having the same challenge. I could not find any articles on this…
Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks

By: Nathan Pledger

Nathan Pledger — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:31:58 +0000

Hi Alex,

I don’t have a solution for you, but I understand where you’re coming from. I’m working on a large project myself and I have looked at a number of data frameworks and ORM mappers. I went through CSLA, my own framework, nHibernate, Spring, Linq to SQL, Telerik’s OpenAccess and have arrived at Entity Framework.

My experience with EF is that is pretty good, but does have some frustrating experiences. I really struggled (believe it or not) to get a simple 1..* relationship working. Whether it was the designer or me being dumb, I don’t know. When someone suggested a solution (I ended up removing the foreign key field) it just made no sense to me. Today, I have a similar relationship for another couple of tables and it works fine.

Hopefully EF 2.0 will be better.

And there are times when I have wanted to use Sitecore just as a database, too! It maps so much better! How about a data engine without the UI layer? Fast, cached, field type flexibility, XMLy, better mapping to OO and scalable – add a UI when you’re ready as an extra layer. (Of course this should be free or very cheap!)