ADAL - Auto Database Access Layer / News: Recent posts

It's been a while, but we finally made a new release of ADAL, the easiest data access layer creation tool around for SQL Server / .NET. The most requested feature, Integrated Windows Login has been added, as well as some other smaller bug fixes and features.

This release has a lot of new features. The most notable are:

- Mapping columns that allow null to System.Nullable

- Updates to make using and ADAL file with a web service easier.

- Added some instructional documentation.

- Support for VARBINARY SQL Server Type.

- Select All and Select None buttons

- Option to create inline (parametrized) SQL instead of stored procedures.

- Added ExecuteExtension_Collection, ExecuteExtension_SingleItem and ExecuteExtension_DataSet to make writing extensions easier and faster. ... read more

Numerous small changes and fixes including:

CodeGen Logic in seperate assembly. This will make lots of things easier, but most notably it will allow easy creation of other projects that use the ADAL library (like a web-based version).

Save project to a file!

ADAL Version 1.0.7 was released today. Additions and fixes are included are:

- Fixed bug in PopulateFromReader that caused an error when calling the SELECT method of DAL objects. The call to PopulateFromReader was not inside a Do While Reader.Read.

- Supports SQL Server IMAGE and MONEY datatypes. Image is mapped to a Byte array on the .NET side.

- Added detection of IsNullable and IsComputed when building the DAL.... read more

Version 1.0.5 of ADAL was released today which includes a couple new features:

- Uses an .msi installer

- Has “File Save” and “File Open” commands that write the current configuration to a custom XML file so you can reload the settings you had last.