Schematrix SchemaCoder
Powerful Data Access Layer Code Generation For .NET
There are few areas of software development more tedious and error prone than writing
data access layer code. There are also few areas of software development that lend
themselves so well to computer assistance. Numerous tools and techniques have been
devised to assist with this effort. Microsoft Visual Studio itself has a number of
tools built in.
Most of the tools on the market suffer from one of several maladies. Many tools are
written to the lowest common denominators of functionality of the data sources they
support and either fail to take advantage of some of the advanced features of the database
or fail to support some of the less common data types. Other tools are written to be the
swiss army knife of code generation and are consequently overly complex to learn and use
for the developer that wants to hit the ground running and get the job done in a simple,
direct fashion.
Schematrix SchemaCoder has been created to help alleviate many of the issues found with
other tools and to help the developer get the job done faster and more reliably than if it
were done "the old-fashioned way". Code generation is all the rage these days for many good
reasons. With Schematrix SchemaCoder, you will experience all the following:
- Huge Time Savings – Manually creating data access code takes time and a lot of it. Schematrix
SchemaCoder creates both the necessary SQL code (Dynamic or Stored Procedures) and the
.NET code (C# or VB.Net) for calling it. The cost of a Schematrix SchemaCoder license is generally less
than a single day’s salary for a developer and can easily pay for itself within the first week of
use.
- Higher Code Quality – Writing data access code is tedious and error prone. Remembering
and manually typing column names is pure drudgery. Many errors cannot be detected by
compilers and will go unnoticed until runtime. Automating as much of this type of code as
possible greatly lessens these types of errors.
- Faster Time-To-Market – By automating the data access layer code, developers have much
more time to concentrate on the other areas of the application (e.g. user interface and
business logic) and can develop better products faster.
- Consistency – Without extremely rigid and difficult to enforce development standards, data
access code written by different developers will vary in structure and quality, making it difficult
to transfer ownership of code from one developer to another. Using Schematrix SchemaCoder will add a
high degree of consistency to the data access code and more easily enable code reuse
between developers and projects.