Watch this and be blown away as well:
http://www.wekeroad.com/actionpackintro.html
A DAL which creates classes for Stored procedures, tables etc.
And all that is needed to set it up is a * in a file.
Home of this DAL layer:
http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=actionpack
The Provware Framework provides a simple way to manage IIS components via .NET in a more “strongly typed” fashion.
Aka an abstraction layer for IIS in .Net.
Looks very nice, and I think I will defininately be using this soon :)
Where to get the scoop the downloads and the rest:
http://weblogs.asp.net/conrad/archive/2006/07/31/Provware-Framework_2620_the-first-drop.aspx