VWG EntityBridge Framework

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EntityBridge Framework combines the awesome power of LLBLGen Pro and Visual WebGui.

Goals
My goal for the EntityBridge Framework has been to automate much of the tedious tasks I have encountered over the past 1.5+ years using VWG and LLBLGen Pro together. So, you are literally getting my heart & soul - yes blood, sweat, & tears - over the past 1.5+ years to build rich internet applications. Most of my time on this framework has been on the bridge between the Presentation Layer and the Business Objects layer. As such, this framework was focused much more on the business data, and much less on a pretty presentation. So you will find your data very easy to work with... but this is not intended to be a controls library. View Dependency Diagram

Community Involvement
My framework is certainly not perfect - but it's a great start. By releasing my software library out here - I will be opening myself up to criticism. But you know what? In the end - by having the Community work together on this framework - we can make it much better! And in the end, that's what counts - Making VWG Applications faster & better than ever before for the Community. LLBLGen Pro gives us the enormous workhouse power to do so. So please dig in, and let's improve this EntityBridge Framework!

Examples / Screencasts
I hope to have some up soon for you! Keep reminding me for screencasts! (A good example project will use Northwind w/ embedded Access DB)

Current Functionality
Misc

In-The-Works
Desired Functionality
Why LLBLGen Pro?
LLBLGen Pro is arguably the absolute best ORM Framework for Microsoft .NET. Enterprise-grade. Like Guy Peled, Frans Bouma - the Lead Developer for LLBLGen Pro - is an absolute genius. LLBLGen Pro Designer Screenshots Full Feature Set

Licensing & Future Possibilities
This EntityBridge Framework is currently licensed under LGPL - which means, you can use it in commercial & non-commercial projects - Free! I hope you find this Framework helpful!

If this Framework does take off within the Community & you do find it quite helpful - at some point, it might be in my best interest to charge a small fee for it to be used in commercial projects. Have no fear, my friends. Here is my written guarantee - if that ever does happen - I will never ask you to pay for anything until we have a solid framework here - and any fee would only apply to new commercial projects. So everything prior would be grandfathered - free forever! So - Use it Freely in all your projects!

Hope this helps!

Ryan