mv.NET: Visual Studio Development for MultiValue Data

mv.NET is a suite of components designed to provide the MultiValue developer with a comprehensive solution to the challenge of creating Microsoft .NET based applications requiring access to MultiValue databases.  With support for all major MultiValue platforms, mv.NET is truly the essential tool for all MultiValue developers wishing to create .NET applications, whether the need is to enhance current applications or to build completely new ones.Its unique set of features allows the developer to use the latest Microsoft technology while still leveraging all of the traditional benefits of MultiValue functionality.  It also provides a wealth of end-user capabilities allowing the developer to rapidly create feature-rich, high performance applications using the powerful tools provided by Microsoft's .NET environment.

Both mv.NET's key aspects - MultiValue database access and .NET integration - stand as world-class technologies in their own right - but combined they provide a potent solution to the MultiValue developer, allowing them to progress their software application developments through this decade and into the next.

Features & Benefits

	Native Microsoft .NET Access to MultiValue Databases mv.NET provides a 100% native .NET interface to all major MultiValue database platforms, allowing .NET developers to access all aspects of MultiValue systems – both data and program code - from within their .NET application.
	All Major MultiValue Databases Supported mv.NET provides the developer with the greatest flexibility to ensure that applications can be deployed across the widest range of databases;  it is currently available on D3, jBASE, mvBASE, Reality, Power95, QM, UniData, UniVerse and UniVision and others by request.  Moreover, mv.NET is an independent release, so even legacy MultiValue applications can be easily integrated into the most contemporary information infrastructures without the needs for costly, inconvenient database upgrades.
	Automated Business Objects Layer Generation The Solution Objects component set of mv.NET allows the developer to create a strongly-typed class-based (business objects) access layer to their MultiValue database.  It provides the complete spectrum of features required to do this -the design tools to create the defintion (entity model) of the access layer, the code generator to produce the access layer program code and the run-time support libraries.
	Complete Development Environment within Visual Studio Not only does mv.NET excel by providing the complete environment in the form of a series of fully integrated plug-ins to Visual Studio .NET (both 2003 and 2005); it is a unique feature. No other product in the market provides this level of integration!  New MultiValue applications can now be developed without ever needing to leave Visual Studio!  This improves developer productivity resulting in improved time to market for applications and reduced support timed.
	Advanced Database Connection Management Technology A key aspect of all .NET implementations is managing the connections between the user interface and the database. mv.NET’s Session Manager makes certain that those connections are handled in the most efficient and cost-effective way, ensuring that users get outstanding response from their MultiValue applications.  IT managers can both guarantee a minimum number of database connections while at the same time allow the connection pool to grow in times of high demand. mv.NET’s session sharing and management provides a sophisticated environment for striking a balance between the need to minimize database license consumption and the need for rapid connection establishment. Web and Web Services applications can be very unpredictable and can have uneven usage patterns, but mv.NET session management can be employed to ensure the most efficient use is made of the underlying database licenses. This mv.NET technology can both guarantee a minimum number of database connections are consumed all the time while allowing the connection pool to grow in times of high demand.
	"Fetch on Demand" Data Retrieval Technology for High Performance Application Delivery Users expect “immediate” response from today’s applications.  With this requirement in mind, mv.NET has been engineered with in-built “fetch on demand” data retrieval technology which is under the control of the developer.  Therefore, application interface response times can be automatically safeguarded even in situations where large volumes of data are being returned or where network connections offer restricted bandwidth; all of this without any extra coding from the developer. The result? A happy user and a happy developer!
	Comprehensive ADO.NET provider featuring Dynamic Data Normalization mv.NET dynamically manages the normalization of data from MultiValue databases to ADO.NET.  Because of this, MultiValue databases now appear just like another SQL database to developers working with Microsoft’s ADO.NET technology. The resulting recordset is fully “MultiValue” aware enabling full update down to sub-value level as well as read functionality.
	Support for Stateless Applications Stateless application support within the product allows developers to cut development timescales by automatically persisting data and status history across application invocations.
	Support for Framework 2.0 and 3.5 In today’s fast changing world, some VARs and end-users will have deployed Framework 2.0 based applications, yet new work is almost certainly going to require Framework 3.5.  Bluefinity is committed to enabling both frameworks to coexist and to providing ongoing support for new versions of the .NET Framework.
	Support for both 32 and 64-bit O/S Platforms In-line with BlueFinity's on-going support for Microsoft technology, mv.NET is available in both 32 and 64-bit builds.