2.0.10725.0

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Release Notes

Retina.NET v2.0 (v2.0.10725.0)


Summary of changes:


New Features


  1. Retina .NET compiled for .NET 2.0 & Visual Studio 2008.
  2. Removed NullableType & NUnit dependency.
  3. Added Generic methods support for ObjectContext high level API.
  4. Added VistaDB 3.0 support.
  5. Added Compact Sql support.
  6. Added Generic child collections & sets.
  7. Added LCG support (DynamicMethod) to avoid reflection.
  8. Updated Castle Dynamic proxy to v2.0.
  9. Created a new DSL designer for VS2008 (preview 2).
  10. Added support for entity fields validation attributes (based on EViL)
  11. Entity map internal implementation to allowing load of circular entity references.
  12. Support for generic IList for Retrieve operations.
  13. Add TRACE support for SQL commands in DataStoreBroker base class.
  14. Added Retrieve method to ObjectContext to return generic IList.
  15. Add Stream data type support for loading large binary files from DB async.


Fixes

  1. Fixed support for IList<> generic interface for child collections.
  2. Fixed support for subclassed entities in child collections.
  3. Fixed custom data type support in DataStores.
  4. Fixed ObjectContext constructor with ObjectDataStore name.
  5. Fixed saving modified entities having proxy lazy loading child entities.
  6. Fixed byte[] support for binary columns.
  7. Fixed n-m lazy load of child collections.
  8. Fixed delete of entities with nullable child entities.

Future

  1. LINQ support is in the works.
  2. Add subclassing and relationship navegability support to DSL designer.

Need help with

  1. Testing / fixing new data stores (VistaDB / Compact Sql)
  2. Documentation / Quick Start
  3. Unit testing
  4. Samples (I have plenty of samples that need to be ported to v2.0)
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