0.5.0 release notes

This release of Cocktail includes a number of breaking changes and improvements.

Breaking changes

• Removed Composition.IsConfigured.
  
  
• Event argument type changed from EventArgs to EntityManagerCreatedEventArgs in IEntityManagerProvider.ManagerCreated.
  
  
• Removed redundant property ConnectionOptions.CompositionContextName.
  • Use ConnectionOptions.CompositionContext.Name instead.
    
    

Defect repairs

• Fixed screen harness to better cope with large amounts of ViewModels.
  
  

New and improved product features

• New OperationFns.OnComplete(EntitySaveOperation, Action<SaveResult>, Action<Exception>) extension method.
  
  
• TempHire: Added optimistic locking and audit columns throughout domain model.
  
  
• TempHire: Disabled redundant validation in EF on save for improved performance.
  
  
• TempHire: Decoupled TempHire from Cocktail release cycle. When building TempHire, the correct versions of Cocktail etc. are automatically downloaded from NuGet.
  
  
• TempHire: Refactored to use multiple repositories and unit of work design pattern to demonstrate a more scalable approach for larger projects.
  • The base implementation of the unit of work design pattern is not yet part of Cocktail. It's available in the CocktailContrib project found on github.