A couple of days ago, InfoQ reported on Jasper, an ORM for .NET (available here).

One of the things I never liked about .NET (or VC++ before that) were the reams of code it would generate. Of course, that's better than just hand coding everything, but it was a hassle to keep up with. It contributed to this vicious cycle where I never knew how anything worked, had horrible God-Classes, and had access to the code it generated which meant that sometimes I needed to know how some of it worked, but never took the time to learn (which may have taught me how it worked if I had used it correctly!). Of course, I was young, conceited, and generally "unconsciously incompetent" about programming back then (has anything changed? =) ). In any case, they are starting to implement the idea of synthesis, and it shows why run-time generation (what I keep calling synthesis) really trumps generating code in files.

It doesn't yet work in C#, but I would expect as they keep adding dynamic features to the platform, it eventually will.

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