0.6.0 release notes

This release of Cocktail includes breaking changes, bug fixes and improvements.

Breaking changes

• New configuration API. Replaced AuthenticationService.With and EntityManagerProvider.With methods with AuthenticationService.Configure and EntityManagerProvider.Configure respectively.
  
  
• Moved a number of extension methods from CoroutineFns to OperationFns.
  
  
• Removed redundant OnComplete(this IResult) extension methods.
  
  
• Renamed DialogManager methods ShowDialog and ShowMessage to ShowDialogAsync and ShowMessageAsync to properly indicate that they are following an asynchronous calling pattern.
  
  
• Requires DevForce 2010 6.1.7
  
  

Defect repairs

• Fixed bug causing client-side validation to be called too early under certain circumstances.
  
  
• Fixed possible NullReferenceException.
  
  
• Fixed DialogManager calling CanClose of the child ViewModel twice.
  
  
• Fixed minor bugs in TempHire.
  
  
• Fixed issues with initial focus management in DialogManager. Buttons were stealing the focus from the child ViewModel.
  
  
• Fixed fake backing store not being cleared before initializing with data.
  
  
• Fixed InitializeFakeBackingStore (synchronous) throwing exception if called multiple times.
  
  

New and improved product features

• OperationResult, OperationResult<T>, DialogOperationResult<T> and NavigateResult<T> now support the Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP) in WPF and Silverlight 5. Ready to support async/await.
  
  
• Improved ObjectManager class. Now has a public constructor and TryGetObject method.
  
  
• Added additional methods to create a new ConnectionOptions instance from an existing instance.
  
  
• Added ContinueWith continuation method to OperationResult, OperationResult<T>, DialogOperationResult<T> and NavigateResult<T>.
  
  
• Added EntityChanged event to IEntityManagerProvider.
  
  
• Added TryClose method to IDialogHost to allow for a child ViewModel to initiate closing of a dialog window.
  
  
• New configurable NavigationService with simplified API.
  
  

Improvements to TempHire

• Refactored shell to lazy-instantiate workspaces.
  
  
• Changed StaffingResourceFactory to implement IFactory<StaffingResource> instead of a custom factory interface.
  
  
• Added query and save authorization to secure client access to domain model objects.
  
  
• Incorporated Cocktail improvements where applicable.