BlueFinity had its first User Conference in Miami on May 25. About
60 people from all over the world attended mv.NET
technical presentations from David Cooper and Steve Sartain.
Drew Conboy, an mv.NET reseller, also presented a customer case
study.
Cooper explained that the goal of mv.NET is to "make it easier
and quicker for developers to create MultiValue-linked .NET
applications". This is done by providing several ways to get to
your MultiValue data, reducing coding while maintaining an
efficient data access layer. Coopers also stated that mv.net
connects to practically all flavors of the multivalue database,
and are working on the others.
There were various demonstrations during the day illustrating
different ways of connecting to your MultiValue data.
Connectivity can be accomplished using mv.NET Core Objects
(multivalue centric class library), Adapter Objects (an
ADO.NET data provider) and Binding Objects (multivalue-aware,
dictionary driven data binding).
Other demonstrations showed developers how to work with Microsoft Visual Studio
to create rich-client, browser based and web service
applications.
BlueFinity
has also introduced a new product, Reporting Services Data
Connector (RSDC), which is uses the current release of mv.NET.
RSDC provides multivalue access to Microsoft SQL Server Reporting
Services.
BlueFinity is committed to providing the MultiValue community
with .NET
integration. Their developers are closely watching the .NET
future directions to bring those technologies to multivalue
developers. As Microsoft
expands its alphabet soup collection (WCF, WPF, XAML, XBAP,
Silverlight, LINQ), look for BlueFinity to adopt these
technologies.