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EntitySpaces to Support the EffiProz Database Engine

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:39:42 GMT

EffiProz is an interesting database and it seems like they have made some very good strategic moves. For instance, Silverlight doesn't support System.Data so EffiProz went and created their own class library that mimic's an ADO.NET provider since ADO.NET Providers aren't supported under Silverlight. The same holds true for Windows Phone 7, EffiProz has a data provider for that as well. We've had our eye on EffiProz ever since the initial problems with VistaDB were made known. What EffiProz is doing seems like a much wiser course of action for a smaller database engine as opposed to going after being able to comply with a very large Microsoft Entity Framework. Something we have been focusing on at EntitySpaces is being able to go wherever .NET can go, including Mono, which we support already. We will continue to support VistaDB as well (including new releases) and we already support the much improved Microsoft SQL CE 4.0 database.

EntitySpaces RIA Services Released to Production

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:45:52 GMT

This release provides four new templates for developing RIA Services Applications. EntitySpaces can create everything you need to get started on your RIA Services application. EntitySpaces will create your DomainService class (including a partial class to go along with it to house your custom methods). Also, your Validation classes and your "Shared" classes for your entities are created as well. Finally a new RIA DynamicQuery template will create your EntitySpaces DynamicQuery classes which can be used under Silverlight in your RIA Services application. Also, two very nice samples are provided for RIA Services, one for C# developers and one for VB.NET developers.

EntitySpaces in a RIA Services Silverlight Application Development Sce

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:10:39 GMT

Whether RIA Services is merely a buzzword you've heard bounced around or you're a seasoned Silverlight developer you should checkout this functionality. When you combine EntitySpaces with RIA Services you will almost instantly be able to create professional quality Silverlight applications.

Writing a Silverlight Application Using EntitySpaces is Awesome

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:00:52 GMT

Sometimes you're so busy designing, coding, testing, and supporting a product that you don't take the time to stop and appreciate what you have actually accomplished. A customer of ours asked us to create a video overview of our Silverlight functionality and in doing so we had to step back and say "wow", this is pretty cool. It truly is easy to use EntitySpaces to create a Silverlight application as you will see.

EntitySpaces Adds Support for SQL Azure and SQL Server Compact 4.0

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:31:20 GMT

This release of EntitySpaces adds two new databases, adds Silverlight 4 support (we already supported Silverlight 3), provides some excellent proxy improvements, and finally it provides a few well placed customer requested tweaks. EntitySpaces 2010.1.0830.0 is available to customers for download now. Our trial version will be upgraded by Tuesday night, perhaps sooner.

The EntitySpaces ORMBattle.NET Performance Numbers

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:30:52 GMT

Although the ORMBattle.NET charts have not been updated yet we thought we would share the results with you. The stats shown below are the stats that they will use to update the charts on their site (they use the 1000 item tests). We think we did pretty well. The numbers shown below are from the ORMBattle.NET site.

The EntitySpaces ORMBattle.NET Performance Numbers

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:30:52 GMT

7 Minutes from Install to your working EntitySpaces Architecture

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:00:52 GMT

7 Minutes from Install to your working EntitySpaces Architecture, no kidding, no modeling, no XML files, no BS

EntitySpaces 2009 Debugger Visualizer

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:07:19 GMT

EntitySpaces 2009 will sport a slick new Visual Studio object previewer for the debugger.

EntitySpaces 2009 Q1 WCF Demo

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:30:14 GMT

I created a new WCF demo for EntitySpaces, one of the most popular third party ORM solutions available for .NET.

Entity Spaces 2009 alpha released

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:13:07 GMT

Says on the site: "We have released our EntitySpaces 2009 Alpha internally to our customers and if all goes well within a week or so we will publish a trial version on our download page for everyone to try."

EntitySpaces REST/POX API Codename Epoxy

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:49:13 GMT

Epoxy is a REST/POX webservice API that extends the EntitySpaces Architecture. If you are unfamiliar with what REST/POX is I would recommend checking out the excellent series over at Softies On Rails. This addition is meant to empower the creation of massively public http API's for any application that you develop with the EntitySpaces Architecture. Why would you want to expose your EntitySpaces objects via REST/POX and not just provide the defacto SOAP service API? Well, lets face it not everyone is living in the .NET world. Don't you want all your cool ruby coding friends to be able to consume your services easily? Of course you do, not to mention the 100's of other geeks that will write clients if only you allow them to do it in the language of their choice without jumping through a lot of hoops. For a more authoritative answer on when to use REST/POX instead of or in conjunction with SOAP, check out what Don Box has to say about it.

EntitySpaces to Support CodeSmith

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:46:01 GMT

EntitySpaces 2008 will greatly expand the reach of the EntitySpaces Architecture for the Microsoft .NET Framework by supporting both MyGeneration and CodeSmith. Our decision to support CodeSmith by no means indicates we are abandoning MyGeneration. MyGeneration will continue to be supported by EntitySpaces. We understand code generator loyalty, and we love MyGeneration. But, CodeSmith has its fervent followers, too. EntitySpaces 2008 will open up a new market for EntitySpaces and will give current EntitySpaces users a choice of generator. As of EntitySpaces 2008, the EntitySpaces Architecture will be a very viable choice for the CodeSmith Community. Supporting CodeSmith will have the added advantage of allowing users to generate their EntitySpaces architecture(s) from within Visual Studio 2005 via CodeSmith's Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 integration. Supporting both MyGeneration and CodeSmith, as this post will outline, can be accomplished quite elegantly, and even allow for greater customization by the EntitySpaces Team.

EntitySpaces 2007 Released

Wed, 30 May 2007 06:31:01 GMT

The EntitySpaces 2007 (ES2007) Architecture for the Microsoft .NET Framework was released to production on May 28th, 2007. The EntitySpaces team would like to thank both our customers and those evaluating EntitySpaces for working hand in hand with us on the ES2007 release. The first ES2007 beta was posted on March 4th and thus began the customer feedback / defect reporting cycle with new versions following quickly as advancements were made. You have truly helped us to make EntitySpaces 2007 a very solid offering for those developing for the Microsoft .NET Framework. We are particularly pleased with some of the mobile development that is beginning to take root. We strive hard through our forums to hear you and allow you to shape the architecture you have invested in. We also work very hard to provide high quality support on our forums and to make ourselves available to our customers. ES2007 is a major advancement over it's predecessor (1.5.3) released on December 30th, 2006, these are just some of the new features.

EntitySpaces 2007 Released

Wed, 30 May 2007 06:31:01 GMT

EntitySpaces 2007 - Assemblies and Medium Trust at a Glance

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:42:08 GMT

Our next EntitySpaces 2007 beta is at the door. In this beta we will have Medium Trust support and a few nice tweaks concerning finding our assemblies in the Visual Studio references dialogs. The EntitySpaces assemblies can now be installed in the GAC if you so desire.

Microsoft ruined data binding in ASP.NET 2.0 when they dropped compone

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:08:05 GMT

Microsoft ruined data binding in ASP.NET 2.0 when they dropped component support from the design surface. What am I talking about? Well, if you have ever used data objects or business objects that support the proper interfaces you can drag then right out onto your form, add them as the datasource to your grid, and then pick which columns you want to use, and in what order, including sorting, and so on. You can do that now with EntitySpaces in Windows.Forms, but all that was removed from ASP.NET 2.0. Why? Let's go back in time and look at the reason Microsoft gave (and still gives) as the reason they decided to remove design time data binding support from the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework.