LightSpeed 2.2 Released – SimpleDB, ASP.Net Dynamic Data, Stored Procedure and more added. - Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day

Saturday, February 07, 2009

LightSpeed 2.2 Released – SimpleDB, ASP.Net Dynamic Data, Stored Procedure and more added.

Mindscape Blog - LightSpeed 2.2 released

“We’re pleased to announce the release of LightSpeed 2.2, available for download today. Here’s what’s new in this release.

Stored procedure support

You can now use stored procedures to retrieve entities from the database. …

Multiple views per entity type

On a related note, although LightSpeed has always been able to use views, you’ve previously had to define a specific entity type for each view. In 2.2, you can use a view as a pre-defined query, so that a single entity type can be loaded through multiple different views. …

ASP.NET Dynamic Data support

You can now create ASP.NET Dynamic Data sites off your LightSpeed models. …

Amazon SimpleDB support

LightSpeed is the first .NET O/R Mapper to support Amazon SimpleDB out of the box. …

Designer improvements

We’ve added a number of options for customising the generated code, including making properties internal and/or virtual (useful if you use a mocking framework for your unit testing), placing CLR attributes on the generated properties and even excluding properties from being generated at all (useful if you have some special domain logic that needs to go in the property implementation).

The designer can now also generate Windows Communication Foundation data contracts for you.

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And many more enhancements

Plus lots of other smaller tweaks, improvements and fixes. We always publish a complete change log of the changes made in each point release.

LightSpeed 2.2 Express Edition is available for free download, and existing customers can upgrade free at the store.

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SimpleDB support is way cool and since I’m a Sproc kind of guy I like see that support too. I also think the ASP.Net Dynamic Data support is pretty interesting too.

The Express Edition is a cool way to check out this product, though limited to eight model classes, it comes with the complete docs/samples and you can even get it without registration (which is a nice touch).