NConstruct 2.1.3

NConstruct 2.1.3 provides you a powerful enterprise application development tool and environment for .NET Framework. Its goal is to reduce the time used for the development of most commonly used enterprise applications, which consist of data handling and presentation capabilities. 

Major Features:

1. True Rapid Application Development
   When you create the database with regard to your customer's demands, you are just a few clicks away from the core of your future application. With NConstruct you get the whole executable and/or source code* for application server, Windows and Web client within minutes.
   
2. Robust and scalable .NET Remoting client-server application
   NConstruct Builder creates robust and scalable application servers which can work as standalone applications or as a Windows Service, and Windows client applications with a .NET Remoting connection to application server. The NConstruct Builder's wizard procedure creates and compiles two Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 solutions with full source code and supplementary libraries.*
   
3. ASP.NET 2.0 Web application
   NConstruct Builder can also create ASP.NET 2.0 Web applications.* By using Fowler's Presenter pattern, NConstruct uses the same logic twice for two different views - Windows and Web.
   
4. Object - oriented design patterns used
   We used many of available design pattern, and we are also trying to stick to recommendation of programming against interfaces, instead of classes.
   
5. Entity source code and NHibernate O/R mapping creation
   Using a NHibernate "Bottom up" development scenario, which begins with an existing database scheme and data model, the NConstruct Builder extracts metadata from the database and uses it to generate XML mapping files and .NET persistent classes - in other words, a skeleton for the .NET persistence layer.
   
6. Generic GUI creation
   With the help of .NET Attribute and Reflection programming feature, we have created a generic graphical user interface. For all tables in the database NConstruct provides a grid table and single record form with the possibility to search, browse, sort, edit, add, delete, copy, print, and export the data.
   
7. Application module selection
   NConstruct can include additional modules which you can integrate in your existing databases and applications. A News Web module is included as an example in the NConstruct Professional version.
   
8. Multilanguage GUI support
   NConstruct supports full multilanguage client application with easy language switching in menu items.
   
9. Integrated security module
   With NConstruct you also get a powerful application administration module: an application administrator can create and change user's accounts, roles, permissions, concurrency locking settings (even on the single entity type), handle dead-locks, etc. Automated data controls are integrated in the entire application: permission control (create, read, update, delete, execute), field validators, concurrency locking (optimistic or pessimistic) etc.
   
10. Easy switch of GUI components
    With the usage of Abstract Factory Pattern, developer can easy switch to other 3rd party UI components (such as Developer Express, Telerik, Component One, Infragistic etc.). NConstruct can work with core Microsoft UI components but we have also added the support for Developer Express UI components as an example. 

Enhancements:

• Upgrade to 3.5 .NET framework and VS 2008 usage only.
  
• Improved DevExpres application look and feel.
  
• A small framework for WCF web services.
  
• WCF web services asynchronous helper classes created.
  
• WCF web services NHibernate session handled.
  
• API Improvements for basic version usage (classes extending better supported) 

Requirements:

• Supported Operating Systems:  Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista
• Required Software:
• • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (ASP.NET 2.0 Web application)
  • Microsoft Windows Installer 3.0 or newer
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (if you want to use generated project and solution files)
  • ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 (only with web client enabled)
  • Devexpress .NET components (only if you want to use the DevExpress UI namespace)
  • one of the supported database servers (currently supported Microsoft SQL Server 2000, MSDE 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Express, MS Access, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g with Oracle 9i or Oracle 10g client)
  • Disk Space Requirements: 47MB (Trial or Basic), 61MB (Professional)
• Oracle recommended install:
• • Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET with Oracle 10g Release 2 ODAC 10.2.0.2.21
  • Components in download that should be installed: Oracle Data Provider for .NET 2.0 10.2.0.2.20, Oracle Provider for OLE DB 10.2.0.2.20, Oracle Objects for OLE 10.2.0.2.20 

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