---
title: "HnD - Open source forums and support backed by LLBLGen 2.0"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/4/hnd-open-source-forums-and-support-backed-by-llblgen-20.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/4/hnd-open-source-forums-and-support-backed-by-llblgen-20.html"
published: "2006-12-04T12:06:22"
updated: "2006-12-04T12:06:22"
tags: ["ASP.NET", "Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Frans Bouma , one of the people I highly respect in the blogsphere as an architect and ISV (Built LLBLGen - one of the strongest ORMs out there for .NET) Just released HnD , which stands for Help and Discuss - an open…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# HnD - Open source forums and support backed by LLBLGen 2.0

By Roy Osherove December 4, 2006 In [ASP.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/asp-net), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 4, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

[Frans Bouma](http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2006/12/04/free-open-source-forum-customer-support-system-released-for-asp-net-2-0-hnd.aspx), one of the people I highly respect in the blogsphere as an architect and ISV (Built LLBLGen - one of the strongest ORMs out there for .NET) Just released [HnD](http://www.llblgen.com/HnD/), which stands for _Help and Discuss - an open source forum and support system built on top of LLGBLGen data access._

"Yesterday, we released [HnD](http://www.llblgen.com/HnD/), which stands for _Help and Discuss_, our own customer support system and forums software! HnD has been released as free, open source software under the GPL v2 and uses ASP.NET 2.0, SqlServer and uses [LLBLGen Pro](http://www.llblgen.com/) v2.0 power for 100% of the data-access functionality. ![](https://osherove.com/img/wb/b619816e_www.xs4all.nl__perseus_smileys_smileyregular.gif)"

I'd highly recommend taking a look at the code and seeing what they did in there, design choinces, and see what LLBLGen is really capable of.

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