Database Connectivity / Windows Vista Development Tools (Dev Tools & IT Utilities)

Build Silverlight Business Applications Today. DevForce Silverlight enables you to build data-intensive rich internet applications quickly. Writing a whole service infrastructure and exposing multiple methods for each data type can be hard and time consuming. With DevForce, you write your Silverlight application on top of a rich business object model that executes on both the client as well as the server. Having a full client-side domain model improves responsiveness and scalability while enabling offline operation. DevForce Silverlight integrates with the new Silverlight 3 features such as the DataForm, DataGrid, and Validation while seamlessly extending Silverlight 3 Validation with IdeaBlade's popular Verification Engine. All of these features enable you to build applications in a fraction of the time and reduce code and maintenance costs.

Provides all the data services needed to build WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, and Silverlight applications. DevForce Universal is a combination of the value and features found within DevForce WinClient and DevForce Silverlight products. DevForce WinClient enables developers to build applications in a fraction of the time and reduces code and maintenance costs, it enables the Entity Framework to operate n-tier and move business objects to the client, dramatically improving application responsiveness and scalability, while allowing offline operation. DevForce Silverlight enables you to build data-intensive rich internet applications quickly. With DevForce Silverlight, you write your Silverlight application on top of a rich business object model that executes on both the client as well as the server.

Build Enterprise applications quickly and easily. DevForce WinClient saves months of effort by providing the data infrastructure you need for building an enterprise application. It fills the gap between the low-level services provided by .NET and the higher-level functions needed by application developers. This enables developers to build applications in a fraction of the time and reduces code and maintenance costs. DevForce enables the Entity Framework to operate n-tier and move business objects to the client, dramatically improving application responsiveness and scalability, while allowing offline operation. It carries forward most of the features and all of IdeaBlade's experience from DevForce Classic dating back to 2001.

Advanced LINQ to SQL tool for databases. LinqConnect is a fast and easy-to-use ORM solution that supports SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. It provides a powerful model designer tool with complete integration to Visual Studio - Entity Developer. LinqConnect provides wide support for LINQ queries. It provides advanced eager loading support, enhanced native SQL query handling, and generates better provider-specific SQL code.

Integrate your mySAP or SAP BW system with SQL server integration services. Xtract IS component suite offers nine components to provide all kinds of SAP interface technologies. Implement your data flows in a secure and type-safe way with a graphical editor. Xtract IS allows you to extract mass data with high performance and stability. Xtract IS component suite includes Xtract IS Table to Extract table data, Xtract IS BAPI that calls RFC-enabled function modules and can act as source, destination or transformation, Xtract IS Query, Xtract IS BW Cube to Extract BW queries and cubes, Xtract IS OHS, Xtract IS Hierarchy to Extracts BW / BI hierarchies and more.

SAP and PowerPivot seamless integration. Xtract PPV allows you to connect all kinds of SAP Business data in Microsoft PowerPivot. Xtract for PowerPivot gives you access to SAP tables, Queries, BAPIs and RFC as well as BW Cubes and ABAP Reports. Xtract PPV is a middleware component to extract data from SAP systems and load it into PowerPivot. Xtract PPV has two components: Xtract Server and Xtract Designer. Xtract PowerPivot is a set of eight extraction types which make it possible to cover the entire range of demands placed on SAP data extraction.

SAP and QlikView seamless Integration. Xtract QV is a software component that provides access to SAP R/3 and SAP ERP from QlikView. Xtract QV consists of two components: a server component and a designer. The server component is responsible for the actual extraction. QlikView Communicates with the Server component, and these in turn with SAP. Since the server component has no GUI, you use the Xtract QV designer for the design and configuration of the extractions. Using Xtract QV's table component you can extract data from SAP tables and view. With Xtract QV Query, you can make your SAP queries directly available in QlikView too. You can also use Xtract QV BAPI component to access data from BAPIs and RFC function modules and directly use the output in QlikView.

Data integration made easy. Centerprise Data Integrator is an enterprise-level data integration solution to quickly and easily migrate, transform and profile data from any application or file, without the enterprise level investment. Centerprise Data Integrator provides a powerful, scalable, high-performance integration platform designed to be used by your business information experts.

Simplify the data access plumbing in desktop and Web applications. Telerik OpenAccess ORM comes with both forward and reverse mapping support and the tool offers transparent persistence for your DAL and business objects. Telerik OpenAccess ORM provides tight Visual Studio integration and allows you to create database independent code seamlessly. You will find many advanced features for code optimization and caching, as well as customization freedom to generate the code you want.

Create advanced XML applications. Altova XMLSpy Professional Edition is a leading XML editor and XML development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging all XML-based technologies. Altova XMLSpy provides intuitive views and powerful XML utilities to model, edit, transform, and debug XML related technologies. In addition to the XML editor and graphical XML Schema designer, Altova XMLSpy offers file converters, debuggers, support for XSLT, XPath, XQuery, XBRL, and all major databases, plus Visual Studio and Eclipse integration. Develop higher-quality, standards-conformant XML based applications more quickly than ever before with Altova XMLSpy Professional Edition XML Editor. Buy Altova XMLSpy with SMP to obtain priority technical support as well as major and minor Altova XMLSpy upgrades and maintenance releases at no additional cost throughout the Altova XMLSpy SMP period.