The EntitySpaces 2008 Roadmap is pretty aggressive and adds a lot of new functionality to the EntitySpaces Architecture. The EntitySpaces 2008 Alpha is already available. The remaining target dates are as follows:

March 30th - 1st Beta

April 27th   - 2nd Beta

May 11th    - Official Release

The March 30th Beta will have both CodeSmith and MyGeneration support, and will contain the C# templates, but we are unsure if the VB.NET templates will be in the March 30th release. It could be that we sneak an extra beta out if the VB.NET templates don't make the March 30th beta.

The Roadmap

With CodeSmith Support, SubQueries, and Casting (see below) already pretty much completed, we are working on the final major portion of the EntitySpaces 2008 release. That is some class reorganization. The big change as far as class layout for ES2008 is that we intend to make the Custom classes no longer be partial classes. This means that your Custom classes and Generated class could then be housed in different assemblies. We have theorized how this is going to work and the coding is underway, hopefully, we will not hit a snag as this has been asked for quite often. However, there is an impact. For the first time since EntitySpaces shipped, we are going to require a change to your Custom Classes. This will be easy to do however and may not require any hand coding. All of the classes in the Generated layer will now be abstract. For those who have been using EntitySpaces without generating the Custom classes, this will no longer be an option, you will need to generate them. We think the over all added flexibility more than justifies this change.

Okay, now on to the list ...

These are listed in no particular order

• CodeSmith Support - See blog post
• SubQueries - See blog post
• Casting support will be added to our DynamicQuery API. Notice the use of esString below. This will result in the SQL Cast() function being called to convert the Age column to a string.
  

  EmployeeQuery q = new EmployeeQuery();
  q.Select
  (
      (q.FirstName + ":" + (esString)q.Age).As("SomeField")
  );

• Support the SQL Server 2005 NEWSEQUENTIALID() Function.
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/2695.aspx
• Make [assembly: CLSCompliant(True/False)] optional in the code generation process.
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/3624.aspx
• Make Ignore Schema and Catalog work for Oracle.
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/1609.aspx
• Add Support for literals in Joins.
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/6437.aspx
• Be able to use inline raw SQL <...> in Select, Where, OrderBy, GroupBy, Join.
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/6899.aspx
• Allow generating entities for tables that have no primary key (read only)
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/6968.aspx
• Add a SelectCountMethod property to the esDataSource
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/7244.aspx
• Add true dirty flags on proxy/stubs.
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/7298.aspx
• Move some methods down, Entity to esEntity, esEntity to Core
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/7591.aspx
• Add esQuery.SelectAllExcept() - already in the alpha
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/7601.aspx
• Fix obj.Query.Where(new esWhereItem(esParenthesis.Close)) adds extra default Conjunction
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/7491.aspx
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/7620.aspx
• Allow use of e.Query for both single tables and joins for esDataSource
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/7827.aspx
• Fix hierarchical MarkAllAsDeleted/Save for collections
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/7593.aspx
• Support MS Access Replication Id as PK AutoInc
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/8031.aspx
• Fix binding issues on Entity with virtual columns
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/8244.aspx
• Fix possible sort order problem with paging
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/8275.aspx
• Be able to un-hook a Query from a collection
      http://community.entityspaces.net/forums/thread/8325.aspx
• Add schema to table name in SQL Server Stored Procedure template when "Use Schema" is checked   
• Support VistaDB 3.3 with stored procedures
• Add PostgreSQL 8.3 Guid support
• Add MySQL 5.2 Guid support
• Test against SQL Server 2008

The next provider that EntitySpaces will add to its list of supported databases will be the IBM DB2 Express database. Date of inclusion, however, has not been determined.

But I don't see my issue here?

Our goal is to complete all of the above by the target dates, and we are making good progress. However, the schedule is aggressive. If there is something we have missed, please post a note in our EntitySpaces 2008 forums section with ES2008 Wish - { your title }

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