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Article for MSDN Online

I've been thinking about writing an article on DAABAF 3.1 for MSDN online.

Christa Carpentiere had these thoughts:

My interest in the DAAB is mainly on helping people out there to use it appropriately. The block itself is great, but there's no documentation on how to use it. So here I am, a developer in an environment with several SQL Server databases, and I want to write data access code for a new app, and I'd like to use the DAAB to help me do it. Where do I start? What are the difficulties? etc. I don't know if this is too ambitious for one article since I'm not sure how much material youy'll need to cover it, but it's a start :)

What else should I put in it?

Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:13 AM

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# re: Article for MSDN Online

Chris,

I say absolutely. MSDN would be the ultime location. I am happy to help you on this if you like. I've become a bit of an expert on DAAB through my using it and writing a provider. I think I've tried every aspect of it and walked through 95% of the code.


As for Christa's comments... It was not even a released product. If you want that level of detail then stop trying to use beta products. You call a static method factor method off the main AdoHelper class and get back you main entry point. Use an App.Config and set it like one of the examples. It shouldn't take more then 5-10 minutes to figure that out, even with zero code. Reverse engineer the thing if you need to in a UML tool or just map on paper the relationships. Look at the SQLServer class and how it is structured to be a chold of the abstract AdoHelper parent.

If people do not know the design pattern, and cannot understand the exiting code, and are playing in a sandbox they perhaps shouldn't be.. I don't have much sympathy.

Not to be harsh... It's just business..

Damon
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http://www.agilefactor.com/ 6/22/2004 6:46 AM | Definitely... I am happy to co-a

# re: Article for MSDN Online

I meant: You call a static methory method off the main AdoHelper class 6/22/2004 6:47 AM | Definitely... I am happy to co-a

# re: Article for MSDN Online

Damon,
My thought have always been to write a fairly detailed HOWTO with a HOWTO on rolling your own helper. I've written the helper one already as part of 3.1, but I'd like to flesh it out a bit. Maybe I'd write a helper for MS Access or something as an example. I was hoping to think more on it this week.
6/23/2004 4:27 AM | Chris J. Breisch
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