Whoa time flies!
. After 9 months of hard work,
LLBLGen Pro v2.0
has been released!
LLBLGen Pro V2.0 comes with a new licensing scheme: it's
now licensed per seat, instead of per-department.
Current customers of v1.0.200x.y can upgrade for EUR
49.- per developer. (Designer using developers need a
license, the rest don't). Of course, every new release
brings new features and enhancements, and this version
isn't an exception to that
! Below is a summary of the long list of big and small
enhancements and new features packed into v2.0:
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Full .NET 2.0 support in generated code and runtime
libraries with separate runtime libraries codebase for
.NET 2.0, using .NET specific features like generics
internally as well for optimal performance.
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SqlServer 2005 server side paging queries now use a
CTE based query instead of a temptable based query for
optimal performance.
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Support for nullable types for value-type based entity
and view fields. (.NET 2.0 targeting code only)
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Support for System.Transactions transactions when
applicable (SqlServer 2005, .NET 2.0)
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Support for wsdl schema interpretation logic to have
wsdl.exe generate typed stubs for webservices instead
of DataSet based stubs (.NET 2.0 targeting code only)
- New feature-rich validation framework.
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Powerful data-projection framework: project any
entitycollection or resultset retrieved from a
datareader onto any datastructure of any type using
generic code.
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Ability to specify scalar queries in expressions, so a
subquery inside a selectlist or inside expressions in
filters is now possible.
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It's now possible to fetch a query as a datareader.
This query can be a stored procedure call, or a query
created on the fly. This datareader can then be used
further, if required, to project the data onto classes
like entity classes, datatables or custom classes
using the generic data-projection framework. This
makes it possible to fetch entities through a stored
procedure call with very a few lines of code.
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EntityView (SelfServicing) and EntityView2 (Adapter)
classes added, which are dataview-style objects for
entity collections. They support sorting, and
filtering in-memory, data projection onto other entity
collections, datatables or custom classes. Filtering
and sorting is done through strongly-typed,
compile-time checked predicate and sortclause objects,
which are also used for filters and sorters in
database queries.
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Expressions now support calls to database functions
(UDF's or system functions). Database functions can
accept entity fields or normal values you pass to the
function or other expressions (like for example scalar
queries).
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Full support for 2-way declarative databinding and
design time databinding in ASP.NET 2.0, using the
LLBLGenProDataSource (selfservicing) and
LLBLGenProDataSource2 (adapter) controls. These
controls support (design time) databinding of entity
collections, typed lists and typed views and support
server-side paging, sorting and filtering. They also
support data persistence / retrieval delegation to
different methods (by tracking changes into a
UnitofWork object), and filtering/sorting based on
parameter binding with other controls on an ASP.NET
2.0 webform.
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Full support for design time databinding in .NET 2.0
windows forms.
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.NET 2.0/VS.NET 2005: A set of Debugger Visualizers
has been added for a lot of classes in the framework
to ease debugging your code.
- support for CF.NET 2.0 and SqlServerCE 3.0
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Oracle support using the Microsoft Oracle provider.
This replaces the DataDirect based Oracle support.
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SqlServer 2005: support for synonyms for tables and
views, support for User Defined Types (UDT) based on
CLR classes, support for NEWSEQUENTIALID() so
sequential uniqueidentifier values can be generated by
the DB and read back into entities.
- PostgreSql support for PostgreSql v7.4 and up
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Much lower memory footprint of entity collections in
memory.
- Entity fetch speed has been greatly enhanced.
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LLBLGen Pro designer is now running on .NET 2.0, using
the new Janus Windows controls v3 for windowing and
grids.
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Plug-ins can now open their own docked window in the
LLBLGen Pro designer
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It's now possible to specify in the designer
additional namespaces and interfaces to generate into
the entity classes
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Completely new code generation configuration system,
which makes it very easy to add/remove/edit the tasks
scheduled in the run queue for code generation.
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New template configuration system which makes it very
easy to add your own templates to an existing set of
templates to enhance or replace existing templates
without having to alter any system configuration.
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Much more small enhancements, changes, tweaks and
additions.