Automatic migrations made easy with .NET Entity Framework

Re:Automatic migrations made easy with .NET Entity Framework by eldavido on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @07:23PM (#3886853)

When I lived in Seattle, there was a good community of C# people for freelance work. I always wished for "C# on Rails", basically a Rails-like framework built on C# with convention, migrations, a reasonable package management solution (e.g. bundler), a mature approach to test, and a deployment system that didn't take 30 minutes to spin up a VM (Azure).

AppHarbor, you guys are bringing this one step closer to existing; great job.

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Re:Automatic migrations made easy with .NET Entity Framework by sk5t on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @08:23PM (#3887060)

When was the last time you checked in on C# land? It's getting a lot better lately.

ASP.NET MVC with Razor, Nuget, and the JUnit/NUnit-like test framework in Visual Studio are all in that line of thought. For something Active Record-like, historically more mature--and somewhat less ponderous--alternatives to EF and LINQ2SQL include NHibernate (FluentNHibernate is nice) and other approaches like Simple.Data, PetaPoco, etc.

Oh yeah, migrations have been notably absent, although I've tried a few like FluentMigrations, which is nice but "out of process" enough that I find it terribly easy to neglect.

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Re:Automatic migrations made easy with .NET Entity Framework by friism on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @10:11PM (#3887339)

Thanks!, and don't forget to let us know if there's anything you think we could do better.

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