About Us
IdeaBlade, Inc., is a leading supplier of .NET Framework tools and infrastructure for rapid development and deployment of Rich Internet Applications. IdeaBlade's DevForce framework, which extends the Microsoft .NET Framework with class libraries, components, RAD tools, and a business object server, enables developers to focus on delivering business value while they shorten their development cycles by more than half.
“IdeaBlade has years of experience building object-relational mapping tools. It has applied that experience to DevForce Silverlight, giving RIA developers the ability to build a rich domain model for their Silverlight application” says Albert Wang, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of IdeaBlade. “With our previous expertise in building n-tier data models combined with our integration with the new Silverlight 3 UI controls and validation, we feel developers have an environment to create powerful enterprise applications using Silverlight.”
Founded in 2001, IdeaBlade has delivered .NET Framework development solutions to hundreds of independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises in many industries including: healthcare, insurance, finance, education, agriculture, biotechnology, and business services. IdeaBlade is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and member of the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program.
Taking Notice of DevForce
By filling the need for managing data in a Silverlight application, IdeaBlade has caught the eye of Microsoft, the press and developer community.
Tim Heuer, Community Program Manager for Silverlight had this to say about DevForce Silverlight:
After one look at IdeaBlade’s solution, developers will be amazed with how quickly the technology allows them to create a traditional line-of-business application with Silverlight, leveraging all the features of the Silverlight platform,” said Tim Heuer, community program manager for Silverlight at Microsoft. “Microsoft is pleased to be working with IdeaBlade to provide developers with another choice of a framework that allows them to quickly and easily utilize what they already know in Silverlight and the ADO.NET Entity Framework.
In an Microsoft Developer Network video on Channel 9, Adam Kinney, technical evangelist for UI platforms at Microsoft stated:
My favorite feature of DevForce Silverlight is the ability to run LINQ statements from within the client without having to touch the server. In the rich client application world, this makes development a lot easier.
