EasyObjects.NET 1.1 CTP released

by Matthew Noonan 5. February 2006 23:46

Things have progressed far enough that it's time to release a preview version for community review and feedback, so head on over to the Downloads page to get your copy (registration is required). I will release a "binaries-only" version to the User Samples section on GotDotNet shortly.

New features and bug fixes:

  • Complete functionality without generating stored procedures. You no longer have to generate stored procedures for your business objects (although this is still supported). You now have the option. This paves the way for adding support for database platforms that do not support stored procedures (Access, VistaDB, MySql, SqlLite, etc.).
  • Support for Aggregate functions in custom queries, courtesy of David Neal Parsons.
  • Ability to load an EasyObject from a DataTable or a DataSet (specifying the index of the DataTable). This allows for developers to return multiple resultsets from a stored procedure and then load the objecct from the DataSet.
  • Updated the QuickStart to prompt for dynamic connection information, including the server name and user credentials.
  • Fixed a bug where the internal datatable was not removed from the dataset when an exception occurred (reported by daveyjclark).

We are well on track for the 1.1 release, but your feedback is important and welcome. You can post any comments you have right here on the blog.

Comments

2/9/2006 2:00:00 AM #

I'm afraid I don't have any experience with .netTiers, you'll have to research that on your own. Sorry.

mgnoonan United States

2/9/2006 2:00:00 AM #

Great work. I am new to ORM tools. In what ways EasyObjects is different from .netTeirs. I am trying to make a decsion which tools to pick.

nyuser98 United States

3/3/2006 2:00:00 AM #

Looks great, this is exactly what I need. Are you going to re-write this in vb.net??

evgene United States

3/3/2006 2:00:00 AM #

Besides which, rewriting code that work in another language just to have it is a net loss

Smart Guy United States

3/3/2006 2:00:00 AM #

The templates are available to generate your business objects in VB.NET, but the core library itself will remain C# only (as all the Enterprise Library is). You would not believe the amount of effort that goes into regression testing all the changes just having two languages for the Business Entities. I don't even want to think about how difficult it would be to maintain two sets of source code for the core functions.

mgnoonan United States

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