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WPF, Silverlight, Windows Store, or Windows Phone Apps—no matter what platform your customers use today, or in the future, you'll be ready. Get started with the Windows Phone app tour.
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- DevForce 7.3.0 includes support for Visual Studio 2015. DevForce can be used in applications targeting .NET 4.5 and above, Silverlight 5, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone Silverlight 8.0 and 8.1.
- Cocktail 2012 is now Punch!
- DevForce 7.2.4 provides support for configurable auto retry after communication failures to a remote EntityServer.
- DevForce 7.2.3 is now available with support for EF 6.1.
- DevForce 7.2.2 provides support for EF 6, as well as full support for Visual Studio 2013, .NET 4.5.1, and Windows 8.1.
- New to DevForce 2012? The best place to start is with What's new in DevForce 2012 and the DevForce 2010 to DevForce 2012 migration guide.
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What's new in DevForce 2012? Windows 8, WinRT, .NET 4.5, Silverlight 5, Entity Framework 5 ... and that's just the new client and framework support.
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What's new in Cocktail 2012? Aside from the much simpler NuGet installation, Cocktail now supports .NET 4.5, task-based asynchronous patterns (TAP), design-time data, and Windows 8 Store apps.
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To ease migration of legacy code to TAP, both DevForce and Cocktail provide compatibility packs with limited backwards-compatibility for the coroutine-style asynchronous pattern. Find out more about Cocktail's backward compatibility.
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The DevForce Windows Store app tour introduces you to using DevForce 2012 to develop a Windows Store app.
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In order to run DevForce 2012 samples you will need to download and install the NorthwindIB database.
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Securing an OData service can take many forms. Our code sample shows how to secure it using basic authentication and authorization headers.
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The Cocktail DialogManager provides a convenient way to handle user prompts and dialog boxes.
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The same Entity Data Model can work with databases from different vendors. For example, one customer of your application might use SQL Server, while another customer might want Oracle.
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Learn how to bind a DevForce entity model to Telerik UI controls.
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Precompiled views can dramatically cut start up time. We show you how to reduce these delays in our video.
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Want to learn more about Cocktail? See video walkthroughs of the Cocktail TempHire and Screen Harness reference apps.
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Access the EntityAspect from DevForce AOP entities. Hint: Don't add an EntityAspect property. Use EntityFacts.
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There are some good reasons to create custom entity base classes. We'll suggest why and how you might do it.
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Using LINQPad? Try our DevForce LINQPad driver to use LINQPad with DevForce models.
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DevForce sends compressed binary messages between the EntityManager and the EntityServer. You can use our Fiddler extension to inspect these messages and debug your n-tier and Silverlight applications.
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Cocktail takes the pain out of developing enterprise applications in Silverlight or WPF. Cocktail leverages established patterns and practices, such as MVVM, and builds on DevForce’s rich data service capabilities.
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Get started by taking one of our DevForce tours: SL, WPF, Windows Store, and Windows Phone.
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Learn to build dynamic LINQ Where clauses out of multiple predicates and explore predicate combinations using PredicateBuilder and PredicateDescription.
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Learn how to add a custom Entity Framework DbContext to your model. Great for mapping entities to database objects or configuring other aspects of model behavior.
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