I thought I could manage to finish everything up today, but that's not going to be the case. The new graph to process queue routines (which are necessary to compact a unitofwork before serialization) were more complex than anticipated (for the nerds: Topology sorting of a directed graph, though you don't know the structure of the graph, so you have to build the graph first, and the logic now does that and constructs the topology sorted order of the graph in the same routine )

I'm currently porting the code back to selfservicing, so there too, faster recursive saves and compact unitofwork objects (and finally correct insert/update queues ) are a reality.

after that I'll wade through the selfservicing templates once more (and all the VB.NET templates) to see where I can remove unnecessary lines and code.

I hope to do all hardcore development today, wrap everything up tomorrow and write the readme docs and create the initial beta.

After the beta is released, I'll try to get a new templatestudio build, commandline generator and extended adapter templates done. So that will be thursday probably. I've tortured the code a lot already during the past month, so I hope this beta process will be very smooth, but you'll never know

Otis wrote:

I hope to do all hardcore development today, wrap everything up tomorrow and write the readme docs and create the initial beta.

Ok, you got my attention Excited as hell here, decided to drop DB4O for the catalogue project and was waiting to see what this beta offered before I got started.

Think you said before that the beta will go to selected ppl and I will look forward to seeing it in action if i'm choosen ... otherwise i'll wait for the upgrade, no pressure.

Good stuff Frans.

The 2.0 beta will go to selected people, this is still for the 1.0 codebase, so a free upgrade (the last one) for everyone

Otis wrote:

I'm currently porting the code back to selfservicing, so there too, faster recursive saves and compact unitofwork objects (and finally correct insert/update queues ) are a reality.

W00000000000000t.

Jeff...

Otis wrote:

The 2.0 beta will go to selected people, this is still for the 1.0 codebase, so a free upgrade (the last one) for everyone

Alright !!!

Operator overloading doesn't come until 2.0 though, correct? That looks to really reduce lines of code

NickD wrote:

Operator overloading doesn't come until 2.0 though, correct? That looks to really reduce lines of code

For the VB.NET crowd it will be available when they use .NET 2.0. For the C# using crowd, they can use it later today with .NET 1.x and the 1.0.2005.1 beta, as C# supports operator overloading in .NET 1.x, unfortunately VB.NET does not.

Otis wrote:

NickD wrote:

Operator overloading doesn't come until 2.0 though, correct? That looks to really reduce lines of code

For the VB.NET crowd it will be available when they use .NET 2.0. For the C# using crowd, they can use it later today with .NET 1.x and the 1.0.2005.1 beta, as C# supports operator overloading in .NET 1.x, unfortunately VB.NET does not.

Righteous! (I'm from California - I can say things like that). I'm one of those C# guys, so it's good news for me.

You guys are totally gonna laugh at me.... After 6 years of being at the same place, I finally decide it was time to move on. Certainly there are both good and bad things related to such a huge transition, but the thing I'm going to bitch about the most is that they only use VB.NET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if I jynxed myself a few posts up when I said I missed the With statement.

I've been adding ; to the end of every line since .NET 1.0 went gold... how am I to deal????

Anyway.. back to your regularly scheduled broadcast...

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