Castle ActiveRecord

The Castle ActiveRecord project is an implementation of the ActiveRecord pattern for .NET. The ActiveRecord pattern consists on instance properties representing a record in the database, instance methods acting on that specific record and static methods acting on all records.

Castle ActiveRecord is built on top of NHibernate, but its attribute-based mapping free the developer of writing XML for database-to-object mapping, which is needed when using NHibernate directly.

[ActiveRecord]
public class Blog : ActiveRecordBase
{
    private int id;
    private string name;
    private string author;

    [PrimaryKey]
    public int Id
    {
        get { return id; }
        set { id = value; }
    }

    [Property]
    public string Name
    {
        get { return name; }
        set { name = value; }
    }

    [Property]
    public string Author
    {
        get { return author; }
        set { author = value; }
    }
}

ActiveRecord resources:

• Getting Started
• Documentation
• Recipes
• Roadmap
• FAQ