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DevForce provides all of the plumbing and infrastructure so you can focus on building your application. The DevForce productivity suite includes Rapid Application Development (RAD) Tools, a Business Object Server (BOS), and a rich set of class libraries and components that extend .NET. A detailed description of these technologies can be found in the DevForce Concepts Manual and the Business Object Server Overview.

  Download the DevForce Concepts Manual (1.50 MB)
  Download the Business Object Server Overview (117 KB)

 

DevForce Features:

Full Visual Studio Integration
  • Object Mapping Tool
• UI Mapping and Design Tools
• Business Object Server

Object Mapping / Persistence Features
  • Optimistic Concurrency
• Transactions
• Distributed Transactions
• Stored Procedures
• Triggers
• Cross-database Relations
• Support for Complex Schemas
• User-defined Columns
• Enumerations
• Identity Columns
• Custom ID Generators
• Remote Procedure Call
• Pass-through SQL
• Asynchronous Queries
• Span Queries
• Web Services Support
• 1-tier, 2-tier, and n-tier Internet deployment without recompiling

Business Object Features
  • Mobile Business Objects that move across the internet
• Client-side Caching
• Disconnected Access
• Cache Coherency Protocol
• In-memory Checkpointing
• Object Lifecycle Events
• Object Identity
• Referential Integrity
• Abstract Classes

UI Databinding Features
  • Model-View-Presenter Architecture
• Advanced UI Databinding
• Managed Lists
• Dynamic Properties
• Nested Properties
• Grid Binding
• Validation
• 3rd Party Control & Grid Support
• Infragistics Integration
• Developer Express Integration
• Form Autopopulation

Security Features
  • SSL / Encryption
• Custom Login Managers
• Server-side Security Checks
• Auditing / Logging