The EntitySpaces team welcomes you to the EntitySpaces project. The EntitySpaces architecture is maturing nicely. We hope that your experience with our latest beta is going well and we apologize for the weak documentation. We are working on providing NDoc help for our next release as well as more content. The EntitySpaces code has changed a lot under the hood in comparison to our earlier beta, and it has improved greatly. Our Data Binding support really improved and we now support both transaction models offered by the 2.0 .NET Framework. We have developed NUnit tests and are tracking what percentage of code coverage we have obtained.
We have also created our first DotNetNuke module using EntitySpaces and are quite pleased with how easy it was and how well it works. The GuestBook DotNetNuke module is available on our main menu. One of our goals is to provide a better data access strategy for the DotNetNuke community. We believe this will help the DotNetNuke community by opening up module development with a very simple and easy to use programming model. The EntitySpaces architecture provides transaction support, dynamic query support, and other features that are lacking in the DotNetNuke programming model. In fact, in our first beta, the EntitySpaces demo ran against three different databases, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Access, and VistaDB. The demo switched between the three different databases at runtime via a drop down combobox showing the true ease of the provider independent nature of EntitySpaces. Finally, within a week or so we will most likely be using trac as our bug tracking system which will greatly help us improve the architecture and serve your needs.
Over the next two weeks we will work hard to publish a pricing model. Our plan is to go with a yearly subscription model with varying levels of support and with and without source pricing. We will be revising our roadmap soon to incorporate when features like remoting and hierarchical support will be added as well as when other data providers will be brought online.
Welcome aboard. Our aim is to provide the best .NET architecture in the market with the richest feature set for its price and size.
The EntitySpaces team