Habanero Review

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An Enterprise Application Framework for .Net that produces an agile application from the data layer through to the front-end. Free open source under the LGPL license, it includes ORM, code generation and runtime UI generation to create one application for the desktop & web.

Features:

* ORM: Map database tables to objects in code
* Persist property values to and from the database
* Define all mapping in a single XML file
* Switch between database vendors with one setting
* Support for MySQL, MS Sql Server, MS Access, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird
* FireStarter GUI class definitions xml manager
* Generate user interfaces and map properties to controls
* Develop for both desktop (with Windows Forms) and web (with Gizmox' Visual WebGUI)
* Generate new projects and code files
* Generate UI forms from templates
* Reverse engineer class definitions from existing databases
* Support variable data sources, including an in-memory database
* Source code included

The Habanero team have been hard at work making Habanero even more solid. Now boasting more than 7500 tests with even better test coverage, this version is more stable than ever. The new release includes XML persistance for the in-memory data store as well as many fixes, updates and new features.

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Please contact Habanero publisher, Chillisoft if you have questions or issues regarding this product.

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