I recently completed an app for a client at work, and while it was being written, Core Data was only available in the beta phase, so we pushed it out using handwritten sql queries. Now me being a .net programmer and having experienced the change from TableAdapters and hand written SQL to ORMs (Linq, in particular), i know that using those have its advantages and disadvantages, and ill voice them here as i go through the project.
Pros: Less Code, Very Little Handwritten SQL (Predicates still need it)
Cons:Any numeric value and Bools are saved as NSNumber.
All in all its a fun adventure so far, ill keep you up to date!
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