I'm looking for some scenarios of how .netTiers is or could be used in the real world in terms of up keeping and maintenance. I've used .netTiers several times however tended to drop it because of maintaince or maybe I wasn't doing something correctly or didn't know of a feature, which leads me to asking these scenario questions.
- What is the best way (or the different ways), and associated steps, to maintain .netTiers code? Regenerate all the code each time a new release or on a monthly basis or other time frame? Can this be done in command line? Can this be automated?
- If the database is changed and updated and new entities need to be created is it best to generate all code over again or just for those classes? Which template would be executed if not regen for all entities? Command line?
- Is there an integration in VS.Net 2005 where I can right click on a table and say generate from CodeSmith template... and then select the codesmith template??
- Do apps only use one version of .netTiers per application so they don't need to worry about core changes affecting a working application?
- Any other scenarios?