using Microsoft.Net;

As mentioned in WhatbiTdd, the intention of this topic is to capture part-formed ideas for (possible) later inclusion in WhaTBI?.

Infrastructure

• Move from NUnit to MbUnit (and TestFu?)
• Auto-generate documentation from structured comments (Doxygen/NDoc?)
• Move to ''proper" build system (NAnt/MSBuild?)
• Code generation (AssemblyInfo.cs, DataSource helper classes, build definition files, O/R (O/X?) mappers)

DataSources

• XML (local file, RSS feed, WS) (DOM, streamed, XPath, XQuery, WS-Transfer)
• RDBMS (many variations on O/R mapping and concurrency)

Client Type Support

• Rich
• Web app
• Web service

Applications

• Integrated, full software life cycle environment
• "Generic" application (metadata-driven types, workspace-page-viewer style UI)

Other Languages/Platforms

• Java (WhatBean?)
• ATL/OLEDB/COM+ (WhatBUnk?)

Miscellaneous

• Use of generics (C# and Java) and/or templates (C++) - see "An experiment with generics and explicit interface implementation" for some ideas on how it might work in C#.
• Other ways of implementing "read-only" copies (e.g. interception, code generation)

Implementation History

Iteration 6/7:  Initial RDBMS datasource
Iteration 8/8a/9: Added built-in support for query predicates (e.g. logical combination, comparison, field lookup via reflection)
Iteration 12: Started an example application - a WinForms membership log.
Iteration 12: Started using Subversion for source code control. Previous folder-based system allowed manual import preserving "history" of project.