I was asked the other day, given that I have talked about IdeaBlade DevForce on my blog: what other code generators/object-relational mappers had I tried, and why did I eventually choose IdeaBlade?
I thought that might make an interesting blog post and had to go scratching around in my memory back to mid 2004, when I first thought to myself that there *might* be an easier way than writing repetitive routines to return datasets from hand-crafted stored procedures to access 40+ tables and then making the UIs for all of it ;-)
First, here's a brief list of some of the tools...