Resources
Vanatec provides a variety of information resources to help you getting into object-relational mapping and to support you become productive using Vanatec OpenAccess.
O/R Mapping Adventures - The Blog
The ultimate resource by Ralf Westphal
Have a look to Ralphs Blog about O/R Mapping and OpenAccess. He just started, so currently, it is more suitable for people beginning with O/R Mapping or evaluating OpenAccess, but you can expect to learn there how to solve your daily problems with O/R Mapping reflecting all kinds of use cases. More ... (external link) (started in Feb 07)
Object-relational Mapping – First Steps
Introduction to Vanatec OpenAccess by David Foderick, Net Knowledge Inc.
Persisting a rich object model demands the services of a smart data access layer. ADO.NET, the traditional data access mechanism for .NET, leaves too much to be desired when working with class hierarchies and interconnected objects with abundant associations. This whitepaper looks at the main features of Vanatec OpenAccess and provides an introduction on how to install and get started using the product. Go to the Whitepaper: HTML or PDF (797 KB) - Last update: 04/05/2007
Stop Hacking. Start Mapping.
Product Overview Vanatec OpenAccess (PDF, 269 KB)
Turn On Vanatec OpenAccess - it just works. You wouldn‘t crumble bread to make it fit into your toaster. So, why the business objects? With the industrial-strength mapping tool OpenAccess, you will become accustomed to data access that treats business objects as objects. With your SQL Database. More... (PDF, 269 KB)
Release Notes Vanatec OpenAccess 4.0
Details on VOA 4.0 Release by Christian Romberg
Vanatec OpenAccess 4.0 provides support for Visual Studio 2003 as well as Visual Studio 2005. It is not necessary to have both Visual Studios installed. Beta versions of Visual Studio 2005 are not supported. More...
From Versant Open Access .NET 3.4 to Vanatec OpenAccess 3.5
A Migration Guide by Detlef Meyer
Covering general API changes, deployment and license changes, behavioral changes this migration guide helps you to migrate you former Versant installation (3.4) to the Vanatec version (3.5). More...
Why make it complicated when it could all be so easy?
A msdn Magazine Article by Andreas Renner
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is upon us. To accompany this object-oriented framework Microsoft is launching a new version of Visual Studios which will make it very simple for application developers to take full advantage of the powerful modules. But one area of software development was disregarded in the object orientation: database access on relational database systems. More...
Store Objects directly.
A Technical Briefing by Jan Blessenohl
The business logic for your application is clearly defined and corresponds exactly to your business model. So far, so good. Now you’ve got to implement the database layer under the logic. It’s likely not only going to be a huge effort. Not infrequently, your ingeniously designed business objects will be sliced and diced. Your well defined business logic has to subordinate itself to database conditions. More...
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