EntitySpaces 2009 Persistence Layer and Business Objects for Microsoft .NET

We are pleased to announce the official release of EntitySpaces 2009 Q1. The version number is 2009.1.0209.0. The Trial Version has also been upgraded to the official release. EntitySpaces 2009 Q1 is a terrific product, if you have been using our beta or our release candidate then you know EntitySpaces 2009 feels like putting on your favorite pair of jeans, it's just feels right. No longer are we dependent upon third party code generation tools and this frees us up to be really creative.  EntitySpaces 2009 is also very high performance as it contains the performance enhancements we made at the tail end of 2008. Customers who have source code access will be able download it within a few days.

Features of EntitySpaces 2009:

• Complete Visual Studio integration.
• Stand alone executable for those not using Visual Studio.
• No third party code generation tools required (No need for MyGeneration or CodeSmith). 
• Project files to record and play back your code generation process with a single click.
• Command line tool that can execute your EntitySpaces projects in continuous integration builds.
• Debugger Visualizer and other debugging enhancements.
• Totally updated Web Admin Templates.
• Lots of samples available on the EntitySpaces 2009 menu after installation including:

1. EntitySpacesDemo (C#) - Windows Forms
2. EntitySpacesDemo (VB) - Windows Forms
3. SqlCeDemo (Mobile Application) - SQL CE Mobile Application
4. esDataSource (C#) - ASP.NET Web App, uses the esDataSource DataSourceControl
5. esDataSource (VB) - ASP.NET Web App, uses the esDataSource DataSourceControl
6. WCF Demo (C#) - Very extensive WCF Demo using our Full and Lightweight Proxies
7. Template User Interface (C#) - Demonstrates how to extend our templates without actually modifying our UI

Fixes since the Release Candidate:

Below are the fixes and enhancements that have been made since the release candidate.

• The SQL CE connection problem has been fixed.
• The VistaDB connection hang on a bad connection string has been fixed.
• DebuggerVisualizer capability is now included.
• DebuggerDisplay attributes is now supported.
• The Smiley Face icon is no longer our icon in Visual Studio.
• There is a new sample demonstrating how to expand our template user interfaces.

Installation Instructions For those who have it already installed

• Close Visual Studio
• Uninstall your current version of ES2009 (you will not lose your connection settings)
• Open Visual Studio - Answer yes to disable our Plug-in
• Close Visual Studio
• Install the official ES2009 Release
  

Finally, we would like to thank our customer base for all of the great and well thought out suggestions we are getting for ES2009 Q2 in our "Q2 Wish List" forum. We are very impressed with the thought and detail you are putting into your posts. If you are a potential custom looking at our forums those are the unanswered posts you see in our forums.

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.

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