We are pleased to make our ES2009 Q3 Beta available as our Trial version. In fact, this is our only Trial version as we want folks new to EntitySpaces to begin with this version. The production release is scheduled for September 28th, 2009. This trial includes data providers for all of our supported databases. We have listened to your feedback and hopefully have implemented a lot of the requests you have asked for. We will still sneak in some more items from the Q3 Wish List forum before the official release so if you see something we overlooked that you feel is very important let us know on the forums. We really need some our customers to upgrade if you can, if you do, please post on the forums and let us know what things you ran into it that weren’t in our release notes and we will update those quickly.

The EntitySpaces 2009 Q3 release we feel has some of the best support for Silverlight that any ORM has to offer. Our smart proxies are very powerful and make working with WCF services and Silverlight a breeze. Also, our DynamicQuery API is much more powerful in this release. Here is a quick list of features, fixes, and enhancements that are in this release.

The release notes can be found in this PDF file. Although there are some breaking changes with our 0209 Production Release no new breaking changes will be implemented between the Beta and Production release.

• Sybase SQL Anywhere Support Including the Compact Framework
• Excellent Silverlight Support
• A New EntitySpaces.DynamicQuery Assembly which is Silverlight Compliant
• A New EntitySpaces Generic Concurrency Mechanism
• DynamicQuery - The Having Clause is Now Supported
• DynamicQuery - Full Expressions in OrderBy and GroupBy
• DynamicQuery - Daisy Chaining Syntax has been fixed
• DynamicQuery - Supports “Raw SQL” Everywhere
• DynamicQuery - Sub Operator Ordering Fix
• DynamicQuery - Order of Values More Flexible
• DynamicQuery – Serializable in XML (very tiny packets)
• Major Proxy Stub Enhancements (WCF/WebServices/Silverlight) and Compact XML Mode
• Enhanced UserData.xml file (support for multi dabase developers)
• Editing User Metadata Easier Through the .NET Property Grid
• Connection Configuration Information Enhancements (no longer read only, catalog/schema added)
• VistaDB Password Bug Fix
• Microsoft SQL CE “TOP” syntax fixed
• There is now a Twitter toolbar button on the “Whats New” tab
• In the Settings “Other” tab you can control what double-click means for a template.
• In the Settings “Other” tab you can turn off the DateTime stamp in the header.

Of course, there are many other internal changes not listed in the above list. One thing we didn’t get completed but will before the official release is path relative project files, we know this is a very important feature. Also, our WCF demo is not included. We are reworking it for the official release, but all other demo’s are included.

Download the Trial Version HERE.

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 Silverlight application, 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.

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