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Hi all, I have LightSpeed 4. My background is that I was a database developer from about 1987-1996 (aeons ago) and am now getting back into the development field. You can imagine what a challenge that is. I understand the basics of the SDLC quite well, having lived and suffered through a number of year-long projects but never with an SQL-based database; they were all like Paradox and dBase II file-system based database products. So when I received LightSpeed and began to study SQL Server 2008, and then Entity Framework, I was taken aback! So, to get to the point, since I understand the basics of relational theory and normalization, do I need to study the Entity Framework to understand how to use LightSpeed? Or is the subject I need to study object relational mapping? When I tried to get into LightSpeed directly, there seemed to be some terms and concepts that were foreign to me and I didn't know where to turn. Thanks, SteveC |
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Hi Steve, Have you had a read through the LightSpeed documentation? We have tried to make this a good reference for working with LightSpeed regardless of your background with object relational mapping frameworks. Its available as a PDF which is installed with LightSpeed and you can find this under the Guides folder in your LightSpeed installation (LightSpeed User Guide.pdf), or you can browse this online here: http://www.mindscapehq.com/documentation/lightspeed If you prefer a nice physical book we have published this via Lulu and you can order a physical copy through them here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/mindscape-limited/lightspeed-4-user-guide/paperback/product-16216314.html - this is at cost so we dont make anything off this, its just offered so you can get a physical copy. Certainly if you want to use some of the reference material around EF to learn about object relational mapping then go ahead, the general concepts you need to learn are directly transferable but there are syntax differences between EF and LightSpeed so you will need to translate those concepts into working syntax, again using the documentation is a good resource for working out what the syntax is to solve a particular problem. Let us know if you have any specific questions we can help with! :)
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