EntitySpaces 2009 (see roadmap) will plug right into Visual Studio and it will use its own internal code generator. This means that Visual Studio users will never have to leave Visual Studio to work on or generate their EntitySpaces architecture. The image below shows how EntitySpaces 2009 looks embedded within Visual Studio. While it is likely to change a little before our first beta this should provide you with a feel for ES2009. The nice thing is that ES2009 is a dockable window just like any other window within Visual Studio, you can even generate your EntitySpaces classes directly into your solution and the folders/files will be created automatically for you. We are also making our VistaDB and SQL CE providers version independent so you will no longer have to deal version issues during code generation.

The EntitySpaces 2009 Tabs

• Projects Tab - Projects allow you to record templates so that you can play them back at any time. Thus, you can regenerate with all of the settings you used when you recorded the session originally.
• Templates Tab - The template browser lists all of the templates available to you, you can launch them from this tab.
• Metadata Tab - The metadata tab allows you to examine all of the database metadata that EntitySpaces provides to your templates during code generation. Also the user meta data can be edited through this tab which allows you to alias columns, indicate Oracle sequences, and other things.
• Settings Tab - The settings tab is where you add connections to various databases, indicate paths such as where your user meta data is located, the location of your output folder, and all kinds of EntitySpaces configuration settings.
• Mappings Tab - This tab lists the mappings between database column types to .NET types.

If you are not a Visual Studio user no need to worry. We will provide a stand alone windows forms application that will look and work almost exactly the same (see below).

The image above is the same binary code that runs under Visual Studio. We are developing both the Visual Studio compatible version and the Stand Alone version at the same time. Expect another blog post by the end of October which provide you with more insight into ES2009 including many more screen shots. Our goal is to have our first beta out by the end of 2008.

From mobile devices to large scale enterprise solutions in need of serious transaction support, EntitySpaces can meet your needs. Whether you’re writing an ASP.NET application with medium trust requirements, a Mono application, or a Windows.Forms application, the EntitySpaces architecture is there for you. EntitySpaces is provider independent, which means that you can run the same binary code against any of the supported databases. EntitySpaces is available in both C# and VB.NET. EntitySpaces uses no reflection, no XML files, and sports a tiny foot print of less than 200k. Pound for pound, EntitySpaces is one tough, dependable .NET architecture.

The EntitySpaces Team
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EntitySpaces LLC
Persistence Layer and Business Objects for Microsoft .NET
http://www.entityspaces.net