mv.NET: 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.   

Simplified, intuitive access to the underlying database, without the need for specific MultiValue database knowledge.  The Solution Objects component set of mv.NET allows the developer to create a strongly-typed class-based (business objects) .NET 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.  This allows .NET developers to access application data in a familiar, intuitive and database independent way.  In fact, .NET application developers no longer need to understand MultiValue database technology in order to create their MultiValue-linked .NET solutions. This means that the largest programmer pool for hire of Microsoft oriented service organizations is now open to the MultiValue community!

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 (2005, 2008, 2010); 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 times. 

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 through 4.0
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 4.0.  Bluefinity is committed to enabling different 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. 

Support for Microsoft Silverlight and WPF.   Silverlight and WPF applications are able to access MultiValue data via industry standard interfaces which allows the full power of Silverlight's and WPF’s excellent data binding technologies to be used against MultiValue data and business logic and enables the creation of stunning, browser based, truly modern application interfaces.    

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