In the previous hour I wrote a real simple web application with the purpose of CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) log entries. When you use ASP.NET and ADO.NET that would typically take a couple of hours. First you would have to create the database scheme then you would have to write the business logic and finally you need to create the pages.

However I decided to leverage the power of some components of the Castle project [1]: Castle MonoRail [2] and Castle ActiveRecord [3]. Castle Monorail is a MVC (Model View Controller) framework and Castle ActiveRecord is a framework based on the active record[4] pattern. The components integrate very nicely as you will see.

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