Program to generate Business Objects?

[VBCrazyCoder]

I have a project that I will be working on, and it will require many Business Objects. However, our database is not even close to being normalized, so generic "table to object" generation tools probably won't work to generate the business objects.

Has anyone looked into something that would allow them to remove alot of the repetitiveness out of creating business objects. I was thinking of an application that would allow you to sepcify some basic information and then it would actually create the vb file that represents the object for you, and maybe even put it in a solution for you. For a simple example, you would be able to specify private variables and have it generate the declaration statement, but then also create the property to go with it (readonly if the user so choose the option), etc. This could go into events, methods, etc. I know it couldn't auto-generate 100%, but even if it could do 20% it would be worth writing.

Anyone cross this path yet?

[Edneeis]

C# has a class builder thing that does part of that for you but then you'd still have to translate it to vb. I think the new Visio will go from UML to code.

I tend to work the other way and build my objects first and reverse engineer the data. Although a tool to convert private members to properties would be nice. I saw an addin that did something like that now if I could only find it again.