Tools for developers, by developers.

Integrated to Microsoft Visual Studio

CodeFluent Entities is a unique product integrated into Visual Studio 2008/2010/2012 which allows developers to generate components such as scripts (e.g. T-SQL, PL/SQL, MySQL, Pg/SQL), code (e.g. C#, VB), web services (e.g. WCF, JSON/REST) and UIs (e.g. ASP.NET, SharePoint, WPF).

The code generation process is model-first and continuous: from your declarative model, a meta-model will be inferred which code generators will then translate into code. Over 20 code generators (a.k.a. “producers”) are provided “out of the box” and can be combined to create your own application following your desired architecture, using your desired technologies. 

Database Generation

CodeFluent Entities provides code generators such as the SQL Server Producer, the Oracle Database Producer, the MySQL Producer, the PostgreSQL Producer, and the SQL Azure Producer to translate your model into a complete database: namespaces become schemas, entities become tables, properties become columns, methods become stored procedures, views into actual SQL views and so on. 

Made changes to your model? Not a problem, generate over again to update all your layers including your database.

The database will be updated without dropping data or custom code. Data access is done using human readable stored procedures (no dynamic code!) making easy to debug and highly predictable. Moreover, if desired, you can customize those stored procedures, implement custom naming conventions making it a very DBA-friendly tool. 

Domain Model Generation

Use the Business Object Model Producer to translate your model in an actual .NET object model: entities will become classes, properties will become properties, methods will become methods and so on. 

The generated .NET classes do not derive from a base technical class and are all partial classes so you can extend them easily without losing your changes.

Absolutely no dynamic code is created to keep the code simple, predictable and dev-friendly to debug.

Last but not least, the generated classes can be used across all .NET technologies (e.g. WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, SharePoint, WCF, WorkFlow, Silverlight). 

Back-Office Generation

CodeFluent Entities is not an ORM: it does not generate mapping code but translates a platform independent model into actual code thanks to code generators (a.k.a. “producers”). 

More than 20 producers are provided out-of-the-box (btw, you can also write your own ;) ). CodeFluent Entities provides producers allowing to generate entire fully functional UIs (SharePoint, Office Lists, WPF, ASP.NET). 

You can also use the WCF Service Object Model Producer to build entire Web APIs with JSON/REST support so you can focus on building your app (e.g. Windows 8 Metro, iPhone, Windows Phone, Androïd).