A little over a year ago I presented at the Omaha.NET User Group meeting about using CSLA.NET and Codesmith.   My team and I have been using these two products together in a project for over a year now.   I absolutely believe these two products have contributed to the success of the projects.  

CSLA.NET gives us

• Unlimited Undo
• Binding to UI Controls
• Base Collection and Editable Objects with CRUD
• Broken rules notification to client via IDataErrorInfo
• Remoting / Direct Data Access with only config change
• much more!

We extended CSLA and features provided by our templates

• Standard business rules through extended properties in SQL Server like MinLength, MaxLength, ReadOnly, IsRequired, etc
• Custom business rules for any property by overriding AddCustomBusinessRules()
• Add any custom code in partial classes
• Parent object can contain 0 to many children collections
• CRUD stored procs are generated
• Load Multiple levels at once so that there is only one round trip to the server
• Created SortedFilteredView object to act like a DataView
• Custom column formatting for grids in our business objects

Take a look at the zip file attached.   I included the demo and the slides I used in the presentation.

CSLA2Demo.zip (1.34 MB)

If you have any questions or comments you can email me at  mike *at* doitconsultants.com

Mike