New Code Generation Tool- patterns & practices: Repository Factory

Well speak of the devil. I did that here the other day. I read about the plans to do this a few months ago. It is good to see they are doing it. I will probably check it out at some point. Probably after a few updates have been made. Hopefully it ends up being a good tool that generates clean code.

From CodePlex:
The Repository Factory is a guidance package that automates creation of entity classes that map to database tables and repository classes to read and write those entity classes. The generated code removes the tedium of writing a persistence-ignorant domain model.

This package was originally published as the "Data Access Guidance Package" as part of the Web Service Software Factory. Data access is a much larger problem space than just services, so we've decided to split this package out into its own project.

The current source code is available here on this CodePlex project; releases are planned to start in about a month.

Goals
The Repository Factory is not intended to be a be-all-does-everything ORM solution. Instead, it's a lightweight code generator that automates most of the hand-coding needed to build domain model object and persist them to a database.

The initial set of work on the package is described in Planned Updates.

Get it here.