I'm really happy to announce that starting from the build v1.5.8.37058 , you can now write your own templates directly from Visual Studio 2008 . You will then benefit from all the good Visual Studio features such as Intellisense , debugging , syntax coloration...

The Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of OlyMars Refresh has been released yesterday. It is now available on http://www.olymars.net This build supports both SQL Server 2005 and SQL server 2008 (CTP6) as long as Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 . If you...

I often need to add the source code content of a whole directory to my Visual Studio 2005 projects. That's the case when I use OlyMars for my own developement projects. Usually, what I need is to add a link to the source files that have been generated...

I will finally be presenting OlyMars Refresh (v1.5) at TechEd Europe Developers 2006 in Barcelona, Spain in early November! If you want to discover this .NET 2.0 code generator for SQL Server 2005 and you are in Barcelona for TechEd Europe 2006, feel...

The first beta (Preview I) of OlyMars Refresh v1.5 is now available to beta participants. Beta participants, if you are interested in testing this beta , just browse to the new OlyMars Refresh Portal located at: http://www.olymars.net From this portal...

It's time to give everyone a little update on where I am on this generator! First, the version 2.0, code named " DroitAuBut " is currently scheduled to be ready around Orcas timeframe (Visual Studio 2005.vNext). Unfortunately, I don't have currently neither...

An issue has prevented users from downloading the latest build of OlyMars. As a matter of fact, until 9:00 PM GTM+1 today , the latest.zip was unfortunately redirected to an old version of OlyMars [1.0.1697.21165]. If you have downloaded your build before...

I have posted a new build of OlyMars [ 1.0.1876.37304 ] that includes the brand new XML Web Services 2.0 AddOn. You can download this build here (once unzipped, you will need to recreate the OlyMars repository). XML Web Services AddOn: You will find a...

I have enhanced the support of Xml Web Services in OlyMars and I need some volunteers to help me on this before it goes public. Of course, the documentation for this new AddOn is not available yet but this is where it goes fun! Like I said, I need volunteers...

Arpajon Hospital (Essonne, France) - July 8th, 2004 - The Belaud Company announced officially today the availability of the version 2.0 (code named "Fanny") of its famous product line. As of today, no major blocking bug was discovered. This new release...

A bug was discovered by one of the OlyMars users (thanks to Benoit Fouletier ). This bug is related to the "Business Component Layer" AddOn. Let's say that we have a Product table related to a Category table; let's say the foreign key CategoryID in the...

OlyMars uses the SQL Server 2000 extended properties (read this for more information on Extended Properties) to store various metadata, among them, the namespaces to use during code generation. You can now edit the default values directly from the "BuiltIn...

Six new properties have been added to both the Table and Column objects. Column object: IsPrimaryOnlyKey : Returns True if the column is a primary key and not also a foreign key IsForeignOnlyKey : Returns True if the column is a foreign key and not also...

I have posted a new build with some enhancements and bug fixes. New features have been added to the "TreeNode Factory" AddOn (be sure to reimport the new version of this add-on into your repository). Note that you should be familiar with this AddOn before...

I have posted a new build with some enhancements and bug fixes. A new enhancement is the transaction support that was added to the " Business Component Layer " Add-On (be sure to reimport the new version of this Add-On into your repository). Here is an...

Welcome to my blog! My name is Pascal Belaud and I'm a Developer Evangelist working at Microsoft France. I'm also the author of a SQL Server based code generator code-named: OlyMars