How to use csla frame work 3.6.2

Haidarh posted on Friday, March 20, 2009

Hi,

I have downloaded the csla 3.6.2 and configured it in my system. I have vs2008. But don't understand how to use this to create my DAL and BAL layers for my application.

Please help.

Best regards,
Haidar

RockfordLhotka replied on Friday, March 20, 2009

Have you read the Expert C# 2008 Business Objects book? I would suggest starting there, and then going through the ProjectTracker sample app in the Samples download (this is the app discussed in the book too).

Haidarh replied on Sunday, March 22, 2009

Hi Rocky,

Thanks for your suggestion. I have seen lots of threads regarding the csla topic. All are not for my level as I am beginner to use this architecture.

But as per your suggestion I am going to follow the Expert C# 2008 Business Objects book.

Thanks Rocky

Best regards,
Haidar

James Thomas replied on Sunday, March 22, 2009

I'm still making my way up the learning curve, but am on a major application now and am confident it will be reliable and well designed thanks to the discipline of the CSLA framework. I think the best place to start is Rocky's book (the first and last few chapters) to get an overview of the architecture of the framework. I'd then take one of the example applications - the one that's closest in structure to your own scenario - and use that as a template to create your first application. You can copy and paste code to create your own objects and work through it to figure out how it all fits together.

RockfordLhotka replied on Sunday, March 22, 2009

I’ll also be releasing a set of videos in the next few weeks, focused primarily on CSLA .NET for Silverlight, but also largely useful for Windows work too (since the business object implementation is nearly the same, and if you are doing WPF, the XAML isn’t that different either).

If those videos sell reasonably well I will almost certainly do other videos focused on other topics, such as WPF, ASP.NET, etc.

Rocky

gurpreet replied on Monday, March 23, 2009

Hello,
I am specifically using ASP.NET. It would be very helpful if there are some videos regarding the use of CSLA framework with the use of CodeSmith 5.1 for asp.net.

Thanks,
Gurpreet Singh

tiago replied on Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I found CslaGen very helpfull as I can have a look at the generated code. It has poor documentation but I think the Code Project articles reference in http://forums.lhotka.net/forums/thread/31781.aspx can help you starting.