This demo illustrates how to design an ORMapping on top of the Microsoft demo database "Petshop".

The example consists of two databases. Since one ecospace can only be mapped to one database, this example has two models and two OR mappings. (MSPetShopMapping.xml and MSPetShopOrdersMapping.xml). In the Orders database, the mapping is very straight forward. In the Petshop database there are a few quirks:

• The tables Category and BannerData have been merged into one class, with two AliasDefs and two KeyDefs.
• The relationship between Account and Signon is modelled as a 1-1 relationship that is embedded in only one side. In the mapping, the SinglelinkDef in the Account class node uses the same column as the key implementation does. This could have been modelled like the above example where the two tables have been merged into one class
• The relationship between Profile and Category uses the secondary key in the Category class ("CatName").

The demo requires MS SQL Server and that the Petshop databases is installed. This database can be downloaded from the MSDN site

Compile and run the application.

• The main window will show the listings of three classes.
• The autoform is enabled for all three grids, so you can navigate the objects by double clicking the left most column (the gray one).
• If you make changes to objects or create new objects, you can save the modifications by clicking the UpdateDB button on the main form

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