We wanted to update you on our plans for our next ES2009 Release. On June 29th we plan to make available an Alpha version of what will eventually be our ES2009 Q3 release, it’s too late to call it our Q2 release however things are underway. We had a very productive team meeting tonight. Our Alpha will have these features:

• A new assembly called EntitySpaces.DynamicQuery which will contain the base classes and support for our DynamicQuery API. This new assembly does not reference System.Data so it will be able to run under Silverlight inside of the browser itself.
• The ES2009 Q3 DynamicQueries will be fully serializable and will not require EntitySpaces.Core or EntitySpaces.Interfaces on the client.
• The ES2009 Q3 DynamicQueries can optionally be built into your Proxy/Stub classes by merely checking a checkbox which means you can send your query to the server and get back an entity or collection.

Those are the main features that will be in the Alpha. However, we have already made many fixes suggested in our Q2 Wish List Forum and will be drawing from those suggestions heavily, including major DynamicQuery API enhancements. In the ES2009 Q3 Alpha version only SQL Server will be supported. We want to make sure we have the changes right before we replicate the changes across all of our providers as we have a lot of them to maintain.

We will be doing a weekly blog post that will outline our progress and let you know what enhancements have been made and what bugs have been fixed. Our goal is to greatly expand the reach of EntitySpaces making sure it can go where ever you need to go, including greatly enhancing our DynamicQuery API. Of course, fixing any existing bugs too will be a priority.

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.

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

The EntitySpaces team has been on a grueling schedule for over 3 years and we are just coming off a much needed break. Our last blog post was on March 1st which is admittedly two months ago, and that’s far too long. We are well rested and ramping up for what is going to be a great release. You will begin to see the heightened activity around here you are used to seeing and that is a good thing. We are really going after full Silverlight support via our DynamicQuery API and more and will have more news on that soon. Our team meetings are on Thursdays and we will be talking about two things on our next meeting, the Q2 release and the roadmap. So watch for another post soon that will provide you with much of the information you have been requesting.

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