I have to tell you that Gennit really impresses me, and I am not easy to impress.  I do have a couple of things I would love to see though that would make it even better.  First, I would like to be able to define at the project level what the data type is for the primary key column.  One project I would like to do does not need GUID's for keys, an integer would be just fine.  Second, is there a way to make the unit test files in a second project instead of being part of the DAL project?  I use nUnit all the time but I don't want my test code included in the same DLL as the DAL code.    Third, I would like to be able to turn off the version column on a project level.  I can see where that is useful, but 99% of what I write is single user and I don't need the column in my code.

Thanks for a great tool.  I am seriousely considering a 1 year subscription just because it is so cool. 

Hi glad you liked it! All the requests you have for the changes will work great under the new  template creator feature that is being implemented at the moment. It will allow you to change the templates for your own needs and open up the GENNIT system.  Check out this blog entry for a bit more information http://blog.gennit.com/index.php/2007/07/20/template-creator/

That sounds great!  I will be looking forward to seeing it.  I have a couple of projects (one that will have over 100 classes) that I would love to give gennit a try on.

Any idea whan it will be out of beta and available for use.

Not sure hopefully within a month, GENNIT is a side project and 'real world work' gets in the way sometimes. Those 100 classes might send the designer mental - I will add a feature request for a 'paged' designer, which is the best way I can think of handing such a large project.

y Gary, and word on the Template feature?  I am not needing it right now, but I look forward to having it.

Great site. I really enjoy using it well worth at least $10 to me. Couple of thoughts: Is there away to change the depth (z-index?) of any of the classes I'm making? Also to help facilicate faster input, can you make a short cut to the Add field button. Slows me down having to type the field name, hit enter, then the first letter of the type (nice short cut by the way) and then have to manually click the 'add + '   button.

Also I think it would be handy to have a way to drag a table header to a column header of another table to specify a "many-to-one" relationship automatically.

Hi,

I've been working on other things recently but will be getting back to GENNIT - I'll have a look at keyboard short-cuts in the designer and a way of changing z-index of classes.

The designer has a lot of work, it would be nice to show relationships clearer (with lines) i'll have a look at doing that as well