So I tried playing with SubSonic this week end. Didn’t have much time, I took maybe 1h total, but it seemed a lot of fun. Kind of a pain to set up – there is this cool “web site starter kit” that is already all set up with ASP.NET memberships and all but for some reason it is not available for the latest version – and when I tried dropping the most recent DLL in it it puked on me. So I just went back to the sample web site included with the current version (1.06) and set it up by hand. Anyway basically you point it at the database and it generates the entity classes and DAL automatically. A lot easier than MyGeneration + NHibernate, especially when I am still toying with the object model. It doesn’t support niceties like lazy loading or cascading and is not quite as flexible (so I don’t think there is a way of coaxing it into reading the SLX database), but it might still be a great tool for RAD and prototyping. I also plan to check ActiveRecord in the very near future.