It is designed to alleviate the drudgery software developers experience writing persistence domains.
Using ADO.Net Datasets is cumbersome and error prone, so a small generated framework was created to relieve developers of the CRUD work.
All code interactions are simply Entity Framework now so there is no learning curve for developers when using the generated output.
nHydrate's primary feature is mapping .NET objects to an SQL server database.
The tool is entirely sited within Visual Studio.NET and all model maintenance and generation is handled directly from the environment.