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Data Tier Modeler (DTM) is a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational framework for Microsoft.Net.

New features and improvements (DTM v3.0)

• Improved association classes management
• Improved databinding (MVC model)
• Improved Visual Studio .NET integration
• Rational XDE compliant
• New databases supported : MySQL 4.1, DB2 v8.x
• Optimization of each database specific code
• Optimization of cache mechanism (2 levels cache)
• More documentation and samples

Map many entities

• Object model (UML, XML, XMI)
• 1-1, 1-n, n-1, n-m … relations (aggregations, compositions)
• Inheritance
• Interfaces
• Association classes
• Singletons
• Enumerations

Features

• Objects collections
• Advanced Databinding (MVC model)
• Data encryption (DES or MD5)
• Visitor Pattern 
• XML serialization
• Cascading load/save/delete
• Lazy loading
• Personalized error management
• Read and/or write access

Interfacing

• Fully integrated in Visual Studio .Net
• Code generation directly in your class library in Visual Studio
• UML models management
• Database connexions management (execution of SQL scripts…)
• UML modeling (with Microsoft Visio, Rational Rose, Argo UML…)
• XML modeling 

Request Language 

• OPath (Object Path)
• Object requests
• Bidirectional navigation through objects relations
• Collections for each type of objects
• Criteria
• Sorting
• Paging 
• Template loading
• Visitor Pattern
• Loading of collections, objects or values …
• SQL requests

Database  

• Database specific code (enabling optimization)
• SQL-Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Access, …
• Database concurrency management
• Transactions (automatic or manual)

Unlimited mapping types

• Standard types (int, string, char, bool, DateTime, …)
• Advanced Database Types (xml, text, char[x], decimal[x,y], …)
• Complex serializable types (Hashtable, Drawing.Image…)
• User types
• Binary serialization

Object cache

• Shared memory cache
• Reference tracking
• Creation of Garbage Collection with unreferenced objects.

[ Via Yitzhak Gootvilig's Blog ]

Gone are the days of dozens of test event handlers and breakpoints just to find out which events are fired in what order and under which circumstances! EventSpy catches all events of any Windows Forms Control or other event-raising object and writes event info, arguments and the call stack to the VS.NET IDE Debug Output window or to a file.EventSpy uses Reflection and dynamically built assemblies to accomplish this task.

Download EventSpy from gotdotnet.com

[ Via Paul Laudeman ]

Covered in this series:

• .NET Framework Integration: Learn how you can now take full advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework class library and modern programming languages to implement functionality within the server.
• Transact-SQL and Managed Code: Find out how to decide between using traditional Transact-SQL or a programming language that is compatible with the .NET Framework, such as Visual Basic .NET or C#. Understand where each method provides benefits and how to design for this in the beginning.
• Web Services: See how to develop XML Web services in the database tier, making SQL Server an HTTP listener.
• XML: SQL Server 2005 contains deep native support for XML. Learn how this can significantly help as you develop applications that make use of XML.
• Data Access: Discover how ADO.NET 2.0 not only supports all of the new SQL Server 2005 features but also enables productivity and performance gains for all developers.

Registration link: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnsqlserver2005.mspx

[ Via hwhite ]

Announcing the launch of the SQL Server 2005 Virtual Hands on labs. In these labs, you will get to experience many of the new features in SQL Server 2005 including CLR integration, XML support and deep business intelligence integration.

Just follow the link and experience SQL Server 2005 for yourself

Step into the SQL Server 2005 Virtual Lab for Free

It’s simple — no complex setup or installation is required to try out SQL Server 2005 running in the full-featured MSDN Virtual Lab. As part of the MSDN Virtual Lab, you will have full access to SQL Server 2005 through the following modules: