Video Tutorials
Signum Philosophy and Vision
Cartoon animation explaining the philosophy behind Signum Framework:
The historical context (ORMs and Linq) and what Signum Framework offers to the development of data-centric applications.
Finally, a very concrete example shows how Signum Framework simplifies the development and maintenance of an hypothetical application.
Video Tutorial -1: Installation
Just a small guide through the the Installation Process:
We show how to download and install Signum Framework and where to find the required applications (just Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2005/8)
Video Tutorial 0: Basics
Basic tutorial to get comfortable with the ORM:
We use a Console Application to model a simple entity class, create the database and save and retrieve some entity objects.
Video Tutorial 1: Writing the Entities
1st tutorial to develop a real application for a Shop:
We explain the typical architecture of a client-server system, and how to model the entities (adding db constraints and validations) the first and more important step when building an application using Signum Framework.
Video Tutorial 2: Writing the Server Code
2st tutorial to develop a real application for a Shop:
We learn how to create the database, load legacy data, write the business logic, and set-up the web server that will be used by the client applications.
Video Tutorial 3: Writing the Client Code
3rd and last tutorial to develop a real application for a Shop:
We learn how to create the UserControls for our entities, customize them, and write Linq queries on the server to feed the search window.