What is Base4.NET?

Base4 is a powerful open source platform and API for extending and integrating existing legacy and 3rd party databases. It is more than just a product it is a philosophy, and approach to integration that makes sense.

Base4 can wrap existing data silos for you so you can re-use them rather than creating a new silo and more headaches for the future. Base4 then exposes wrapped silos using very powerful object mapping techniques.

Base4 though, is much more than an OR mapper, we suggest you have a read of Top 5 reasons why Base4 is different.

Highlights of Base4.NET version 2.2:

Key features:

Our Supporters:

We couldn't have produced Base4.NET without the help of some excellent software, namely:

The Base4.NET opensource project has been brilliantly supported by the wonderful team at Fogcreek Software. They gave us licenses for their magnificent bug tracking software Fogbugz.

We highly recommend that you look into using Fogbugz to help manage your software development professionally.

To review the Base4.NET projects outstanding issues and planned features etc you can go here. You can logon on as 'contributor@base4.net' with the password 'base4.net'

Download Base 4.NET

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QUICKSTARTS
To get up and running we put together a Quickstart Guide.

The Quickstarts will walk you through many common tasks in Base4.NET.

SCHEMAS
Base4.NET enables development of business solutions using XML schemas. Once created these schemas can be re-used easily.

To help you get started we provide a few Basic Schemas for some key scenarios..

Version 2.2 now available
A new major release of Base4.NET was released on December 5th 2006.

This biggest features of this release is new support for migrations and consolidation of compile time expression support across all areas of the Base4 code base.

Read more in the highlights and on the Base4 blog.