EF to SL migration

Dear WildHog,

Thank you very much for the timely response. I will definitely look at it and use it without hesitation for all my new projects. It is well worth the learning time. You've saved my day :)

And of course many thanks to Brian Noyes for making his extensions available to all WinForms developers.

Ali

<prime numbers are God's signature>

Salam Ben,

There is nothing special about odd numbers, we human highlighted the odd/even tags divisibility by 2.

Now, prime numbers on the other hand are the basic building blocks for all other numbers :)

If IdeaBlade doesn't mind I can shed some light my claim of <prime numbers are God's signature> and thier relationship to the year 2012 :)

You see, we have a book that contains 114 chapters, 1 called the key and the other 113 chapters are the message that need to be decoded using the key.

The key has 7 lines, 29 words, 139 letters. All are prime numbers :)

What's more their digit sums, 7 = 7,   2+9 = 11,   1+3+9 = 13 are also primes :)

And the sum of these sums  7+11+13 = 31 is prime too :)

And more amazingly concatenating the 7, 29, 139 numbers left-to-right (729139) or right-to-left (139297) also yields primes. If you (or indeed others) would like to know how this all relates to the year 2012 then I contactable via pureprimes@yahoo.com

Back to DevForce, I too started using DevExpress since Delphi 4 and C++Builder 1.0. I tired ComponentOne before but still stack to DevForce and was a bit disappointed with their lagging behind in the WPF/Silverlight arena. But I trust them and will wait. Telerik seems very promising since their were the first to offer WPF-like functionality for .NET 2.0 (WinForms).

I am totally newbie in DevForce and would appreciate all the help I can get with direction and technology. I am about to start a new project and have full freedom to chose any technology I see fit and came to the conclusion that I should start with DevForce WinClient for version 1.0 (six months) to keep the risk down and shareholders happy and then go for my real aim, DevForce Silverlight :)

I spent sometime evaluation and talking to other Application Framework vendors (StrataFrame, Mere Mortals) and although their technology faster than DevForce they are not as mature as DevForce products. Specifically they don't even have ORM in place and just automate DateAccess and UIBinding at table/class level. No relationships nor object graphs. StartaFrame was the closest to what I need for .NET2 especially their Role-based Security product but at the end I preferred to build that myself and stay with current technology trend.

BTW how do I Private Message you? Cannot see any PM link anywhere? Or should I use your email at you website Contact page?

Thanks for you Ben and all the great people at IdealBlade and look forward to more interaction on this wonderful forum.

Ali Adams

God > infinity

If you are planning for a Silverlight migration, I would consider building the WinClient application in WPF.  If you limit yourself the the subset of WPF supported in Silverlight, you can have both a desktop WPF and Silverlight application share the same code base (but still have some addditional functionality enabled in the desktop WPF app via branching or conditional compilation).  If you decide to go with WinForms, make sure you have a clean separation of the UI from the model using your favorite pattern (MVVM, MVC, MVP), although this would be a good idea for any implementation.

Dear wonderful IdeaBlade staff,