Ruurd Boeke has recently released
PostSharp4ET, a PostSharp plug-in allowing to use Microsoft Entity Framework
without plumbing code -- PostSharp generates it for you at build-time.
PostSharp4ET is released as a part of
Entity Framework Contrib hosted
on CodePlex.com.
With PostSharp4ET, enabling persistency on a class should be as easy as
decorating it with a custom attribute:
[Poco("ConnectionName")]
public class Person
{
public int PersonID { get; set; }
public string Firstname { get; set; }
public string Lastname { get; set; }
}
Under the hood, EF-specific interfaces are implemented automatically at build
time.
Ruurd
explains everything extensively on his blog. And even if you are not
interested in Microsoft Entity Framework, Ruurd's blog is a great introduction
to how to write more complex aspect libraries with PostSharp.
Thank you Ruurd for this excellent work!