The estimated date for the EntitySpaces 1.6.0 release is March 15th, 2007. This date is only an estimate but it is our intended goal to hit that release date. There will be a full beta period before the release and all customers will be able to participate. There are numerous fixes and small items in our tracking system not listed here that will make it into this release. We are showing just the major features here.
Data Binding
This is going to be the main focus of the EntitySpaces 1.6.0 release. We will be adding design time data binding to our ASP.NET support. We will also be testing using the .NET GridView, the Telerik r.a.d.grid, Infragistic’s WebGrid, and a few others. We will test in both Windows Forms and ASP.NET environments.
We will implement the Microsoft .NET DataSourceControl class for EntitySpaces to allow for ASP.NET design time support to make things even easier. Two-way data binding will also be supported. EntitySpaces will also support the .NET DetailsView/FormView controls. Finally, hierarchical data binding will be supported so that you can drill down through the hierarchical data model in your grid, if your grid supports hierarchical data binding.
Samples of EntitySpaces being used in all of the above environments will be made available for download as well. These data binding enhancements represent a major chunk of work and are no small undertaking.
Hierarchical Improvements
The hierarchical data model currently only saves from the top down. Our plan is to remove this constraint from the hierarchical model and make it so that it doesn’t matter where you jump into the tree, or whether your traverse it up or down. It will always save correctly no matter what node you call Save on.
Also, added to the hierarchical templates will be an exclude table list. This list will allow you to exclude certain tables from the model. If any foreign keys link to a table in the exclude list that entry will not be created, thus, you control what tables are referenced in the hierarchical model.
Medium Trust Support
We will be adding support for running in medium-trust mode which is important when running under certain hosting environments.
Optional Base Class
There will be a checkbox on the master templates that will allow you to slice in your own class between your generated class and the esEntity or the esEntityCollection class. This will allow you to include core functionality across all of your classes within a single base class.
Query API Enhancements
Enhancements to the QueryAPI such as StartsWith, EndsWith, RTrim, LTrim, Trim, Upper, Lower, Row + Top/Limit (MySql, Oracle, and SQL 2005’s ROW_NUMBER will work via these).
Utility Class
There will be a new utility class that will allow you to inherit from or use it directly to call miscellaneous stored procedures and such that really are system wide and don’t make sense in any of your custom classes.
Stored Procedure Based Entities
At this point the plan is to create read-only entities using stored procedures as the source, this has been asked for by lots of folks and we will be asking for input on this before we implement.
Webservices
Publish Full Xml and Binary WebServices Examples