DevForce 'Classic' Overview

DevForce Classic is a comprehensive platform that enables enterprise .NET development and deployment
for 2-tier and n-tier environments.

Key features include enterprise-grade object persistence, client-side caching, advanced WinForms data binding, business rule validation, and offline operation. DevForce Classic gives you most of the benefits of the Entity Framework today and provides a safe development path to using the Entity Framework tomorrow.

Accelerate Development
The DevForce Classic Framework from IdeaBlade is the industry’s most mature and extensible .NET development platform. Using DevForce Classic, your team can slice development cycles for n-tier .NET applications by up to 70%, enabling you to speed your time to market while you ensure delivery of feature-rich, compelling applications for your end-users.

Fully integrated with Visual Studio, DevForce provides enterprise-class persistence, advanced UI databinding, n-tier deployment, and support and integration with the latest Microsoft technologies such as WCF and WPF.

DevForce provides the technology infrastructure layer, so you can focus on writing business logic and building your application. The result is shorter cycles spent on higher value code; in short: Better Applications Faster.

Reduce Costs and Risks
DevForce also reduces the overall costs and risks of your software project.

Perhaps most important of all, because DevForce enables your team to standardize on a single robust infrastructure, your developers can put more time into the high-value user interface, business logic, and workflow of the application. The result is feature-rich, highly productive applications, made more reliable by using DevForce to create a solid foundation.

• Business object server for high performance data access, centrally hosted security, web service publication, event notification, and remote business logic execution.
• Object oriented persistence for retrieving and saving relational and web service data as object graphs while supporting distributed transactions, optimistic concurrency, remote procedure calls, and asynchronous operations.
• Client-side caching of business objects for ensuring entity identity and reducing network traffic for superior application responsiveness.
• Encrypted, compressed mobile business objects communicated between server and client over high and low bandwidth networks using a variety of protocols including TCP/IP and HTTP.
• Advanced Data Binding designers and managers, which help developers populate forms with multi-vendor UI controls and coordinate data dynamic interchange between those controls and data bound application objects.
• Verification engine for enforcing business rules and data integrity at the object level.
• Object Mapping tool, integrated into Visual Studio, which maps business objects to relational and web service data repositories.
• Offline mode, which ensures resilience and continuous operation when network connections are poor or non-existent.