by Marius Gheorghe
13. April 2006 21:45
Work on Datablock ( http://www.voidsoft.ro) continues at a franctic pace. The upcoming release (1.2) will be available at the end of august.
Along with the enhancements (i will talk another time about this) and bug fixes a big noteworthy change :
-.NET 2.0 only. Mostly for generics (like i already said i'm not entirely happy with the constraints in .NET 2.0 generics) but getting rid of the custom collections along with StringCollections and the like worth it. It's speedier too when compared with 1.1. As long as i'm on this topic....we decided that arrays will still the primary method of returning multiple data ( we can also returned List<TableMetadata> as a conventional sided API for the languages that will support generics......although the generics are CLR compliant i don't expect that most languages will have support for them in the foreseeable future).
Other new related to DataBlock....well DataBlock will be "the main pillar" of the upcoming codenamed Sunrise business application framework which we will launch along with the .NET 2.0 release. More news about this in the upcoming months.
We're planning to write some medium size application (with GUI both Windows Forms and ASP.NET) as demonstration for DataBlock.
(the current one is too small). I will also record a demonstration video for DataBlock (not everyone has time to read docs ).
So much things to do....so little time. Got to get back to work.