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The Challenge: Improve team productivity and reduce costs In today's software markets, where custom applications directly compete with lower cost standard software applications and standard applications compete with one another, construction costs and time-to-market are the most crucial technical success factors. Team productivity is the key to reduce both. The Solution: Model-Driven Code Generation To improve competitiveness of custom » Read more... |  |
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The Challenge: Improve team productivity and reduce costs
In today's software markets, where custom applications directly compete with lower cost standard software applications and standard applications compete with one another, construction costs and time-to-market are the most crucial technical success factors. Team productivity is the key to reduce both.
The Solution: Model-Driven Code Generation
To improve competitiveness of custom software it is necessary to borrow quality attributes, low cost and short time-to-implementation from standard software. Typically these goals are reached by means of software reuse. However, in the domain of database applications it's important to see that the application model is very specific. Therefore the application must be modeled and reuse has to occur by means of generating executable, quality-assured code from these models.
Key features of tangible architect
With tangible architect, the model-driven code generator for .NET Database Applications you can boost your teams productivity dramatically and achieve more with less man-hours. With tangible architect you can
- Generate critical elements - Business Objects and the Database Schema - from a Model
- Envision and communicate using any media: UML, C# Interfaces or Wizards
- Leverage Data-Binding to develop complex User Interfaces rapidly
- Build easy-to-deploy applications with a royalty free runtime
- Work highly efficient and effective in micro-teams as well as in large teams
Features
tangible
architect generates a persistent object model
Generated Persistent
Object Models offer the following advantages:
Working Persistent
Object Models are generated from UML or C#
Interfaces
This way your model is a live
artifact that accurately reflects the system's current state
of development. tangible architect generates the implementation of
business objects - Not only stubs! This saves
you valuable time and money. With tangible architect
up to 70% of the code of an
average application can be generated automatically. This includes
data access, data-binding and parts of the business
logic.
O/R Mapping - Error-prone SQL programming is
not necessary
The translation of tables into objects
is taken care of for you automatically. Error-prone
SQL programming is no longer required.
Clear and
intuitive structure for your system - directly derived
from the model
Every developer knows how to
navigate a Microsoft Office Application's Object Model. Structuring
your system in a similar way makes obvious
what data is available, how it relates to
other data, and which lifetime restrictions hold. This
way unnecessary errors related to ambiguously expressing data
relationships in code, DDL or stored procedures can
be avoided and valuable time for studying these
ambiguous descriptions can be saved.
Extensibility to accommodate
Business Logic
Overridable attributes, events and user-defined methods
are ideal to add business logic to the
object model. The tangible architect Class View Wizards
makes adding business logic a snap.
Drag and
Drop UI design using Databinding
Thanks to the
data-binding support of generated business objects, you can
drag and drop business objects to a form
and get the textboxes, comboboxes or even sortable
datagrids automaically data populated. Changes made in UI
are reflected to database.
Reduced Error Rates with
clear Naming, defined Semantics and Type-Safety
Strong named,
type-safe collection methods reduce the error rate involved
in object model use.
Schema Generation & Evolution
and Deployment - No DDL Scripts needed!
The
persistent object model automatically derives its database schema
from the type-definitions and is able to create
a database and insert the schema automatically. This
way you can stop messing around with DDL
scripts and associated versioning problems.
Reliable Transactions and
Record Level Locking
Reliable transactions based on a
classic connection-oriented architecture: this way, even under .NET,
you can rely on record level locking and
relax, even during multi-user operation.
Intelli-Sense support eases
application development
Type-safe collection classes for access to
relationships between objects enable the full benefits of
Intelli-Sense.
Escaping the "Null"-value problem
Initialization of object
attributes with default values - this way, you
can avoid problems with "Null" -values.
Run-time framework built on top of Microsoft Meta Data Services
Object-oriented database browser
The object oriented database browser
significantly simplifies debugging a database applications. You can
easily navigate the whole database in an explorer-like
GUI.
Intelligent object caching and garbage collection
The
Advanced Caching Technology build into MDS assures high-performance
data access. In conjunction with the automatic garbage
collection features of .NET it provides a seamless
experience working with persistent objects.
The Query API
enables querying of data without use of SQL
Using the query API the compiler already notifies
you when you access a database field that
no longer exists or has been relocated. This
protects you from SQL related crashes of your
application at a customer site.
Royalty free redistribution
Modeling concepts based on UML Class Diagrams
tangible architect makes the following elements available for modeling:
Relationship types between persistent objects
- Composition corresponding
to UML - a bi-directional "is part of
" relationship with "create" and "delete cascade" semantics.
- Aggregation corresponding to UML - a bi-directional
"is part of " relationship with "assign" and
"unassign" semantics without "delete cascade" semantics.
- Association
corresponding to UML - a bi-directional "is related
to" relationship with "link" and "unlink" semantics without
"delete cascade" semantics.
- Unique naming of objects
and ordered relations are optional properties of the
relations
* Sortable and Filterable Collections via CollectionView
property
* Inheritance corresponding to UML
* Property
types of persistent objects
- bool, char, string,
byte, short, int, float, double, DateTime, decimal
-
Binary large objects (BLOBs) are stored as byte
arrays
* Default Values and Object Names
-
Each attribute can be assigned a default value.
- A string attribute can be defined as
an object name for each object. This is
used for indexing, unique-naming relationships and to display
object names in the object-oriented database browser.
Modeling
is supported in UML or using C# Interfaces
tangible architect supports both code-based modeling via C#
interfaces and UML-based modeling.
- Code-based modeling by means of .NET attributes in interface descriptions
- Support for
UML forward, reverse and round-trip engineering
This way model and code are always in sync.
Visual
Studio.NET Integration
Integration of Visual Studio.NET is a
part of our overall concept. The Wizards and
special views make working in Visual Studio.NET easier:
- Class browser and wizards help working with and
extending your object model
The tangible architect class browser gives you a detailed overview of all persistent objects. Wizard for creating and editing persistent objects, attributes, relationships and methods can be found here. - Visual Studio integrated Online Help
The help is integrated with Visual Studio.NET and supports you at all times, providing you with valuable tips while authoring code.
Database support
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000, all languages and editions
- The free Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine, with Royalty Free Redistribution for MS SQL Server Developer Edition licensees
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005, all languages and editions
- The free Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, all languages and editions
- MS Access / Jet 4.0 (Limited)
Programming languages supported
- Microsoft C#
Editions
tangible architect
is available in three editions suited for different
project sizes. Project size is measured in terms
of model elements. The number of model elements
is the sum of the number of classes
plus the number of relationships.
Professional Edition | yes | no | 100 |
Enterprise Edition |
yes | yes |
no limit |