We are pleased to make our Official EntitySpaces Q3 Release available. Both the Developer and Source code are available for download to current customers and the Trial version is the official ES2009 Q3 production release as well. The version number is 2009.2.0928.0. We recommend you download ES2009 Q3 saving it to disk and then install via the Start menu’s “Run As …” command and run as “Admin”. This is necessary for Windows Vista and Windows 7.

NOTE: You must regenerate your “Generated” classes and your stored procedures, if using stored procedures.

The EntitySpaces 2009 Q3 release has some of the best support for Silverlight and WCF that any ORM has to offer. Our smart proxies are very powerful and make working with WCF services and Silverlight a breeze. See the PDF’s in our Silverlight and WCF demos. 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. There are some breaking changes with our 0209 Production Release which is unusual for us, however, they are pretty minor.

• Sybase SQL Anywhere Support Including the Compact Framework
• Excellent Silverlight and WCF Support
• 64 bit runtime assemblies are included
• A New EntitySpaces.DynamicQuery Assembly which is Silverlight Compliant
• A New EntitySpaces Generic Concurrency Mechanism for all databases
• 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)
• DynamicQuery – Parse() method allows you to get the SQL without executing the statement
• 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 and Microsoft SQL CE Password Bug Fixes
• 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.
• Brand new Silverlight and WCF Demos
• We are now bound to VistaDB 3.4.1.84

Of course, there are many other internal changes not listed in the above list.

One thing we didn’t get completed is “path relative project files”. We know this is a very important feature however it turned out be be more complicated than we first thought. However, this will be a high priority for 2010. Also, the Trial version comes with the source code to our Sybase plugin for our code generation engine which will allow you to easily switch Sybase versions. The ES2009 Q3 Developer does not have the Sybase source in it, we will make it available via a separate download.

We will be doing a series of blog posts highlighting a lot of these new features so stay tuned.

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/WCF 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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