Nolics.net 2005 – Introduction
Nolics.net 2005 is a new kind of a horizontal developer tool plug-in for Visual Studio 2005. This newly released product increases your productivity and gives you a competitive edge for the whole life cycle of your application development project.
Freedom to Automate(TM) – The Nolics.net 2005 Philosophy
Nolics.net integrates seamlessly into the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment and helps in the rapid development of applications throughout the whole life-cycle.
1.) Freedom: Customizability, non-intrusiveness
2.) Automation: The generation of the data-access layer is fully automatic, yet fully customizable
3.) Focus on the essentials: The object model is the master – the software is automatically generated from the model
Nolics is a Microsoft VSIP and thus has the right to use the Microsoft ”Optimized for Visual Studio” logo.
The Business Benefits of Nolics.net 2005 :
Nolics.net 2005
• Shortens the time used in the implementation phase of application development
• Decreases the amount of errors
• Makes the maintenance of your application easier
• Makes quick changes possible
• Enables you to multiply the know-how of the top professionals in your company
• Lengthens the life cycle of your application / solution
Versions
Nolics.net 2005 full version has just been released. The Trial Version is downloadable for free at our website at www.nolics.net/nolicsnet2005trial.aspx.
We also continue to offer the older Nolics.net 2.1, which is a completely different product designed for Visual Studio 2003. There is a free trial download available for Nolics.net 2.1 at our website at www.nolics.net/nolicsnet21.aspx.
What’s new in Nolics.net 2005
Everything. Nolics.net 2005 is a wholly new kind of product which combines the benefits of object-relational mapping with Domain Specific Languages to enhance the development of all .NET applications. This new release is one of the first products to actually utilize the new features of both Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0.
Nolics.net 2005 – Technical Features
- Changes to the object model are made to the classes while the schema is updated automatically
o No intermediate mapping files, no mapping tools, and no mandatory embedded SQL
- Data stored to database in normalized SQL form – accessible by standard SQL
- Accesses all data by default through views and stored procedures
o CRUD Procedures customizable via XSLT
- Import existing legacy databases, produce classes from schema
- Heterogenous groups of objects can be handled easily as a single unit
- Handles different customer installations, databases and deployment scenarios with ease
- Flexible datasource model; datasource quickly changed into a WebService
- Extendable and customizable
- No base class requirement
- Lazy-loading and optimizing cache
- Full versioning and history journaling
- Supports full inheritance
- Supports relation handling
- Supports the identity principle
- Supports data binding for both WinForms and ASP.NET
- Supports object level transactions (i.e. the object has an undo state).
- Supports standard .NET features (role based security etc.)
- Supports user defined types and SQL Server 2005 UDTs
- Compatible with VB.NET, C# and other languages
- Compatible with SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and other databases