General Features

• Transparent O/R mapping that does not require inheriting a persistent base class, attributes, or code generation.
• Mappings can be defined externally in xml using the application.config, web.config, or a seperate xml file.
• Mappings can be defined within the class using attributes.
• Flexible mappping to fields and properties with public or private access.
• Easy to work with data source as objects or relational data.
• Easy delayed loading of related objects.

Persistence Features

• Supports stored procedures.
• Optionally create database storage (tables, stored procedures) for objects on start-up or programmatically during runtime.
• Extendable architecture to allow custom mappings.

Database

• Supports Microsoft Sql Server and Microsoft Access, without requiring code changes.

License

Inform is released under the MIT License.