mv.NET: Heads up on Version 4!

BlueFinity International is pleased to announce the general availability of the latest version of its extensive toolset designed for creating Microsoft .NET-based applications requiring access to MultiValue databases: mv.NET Version 4.

The main thrust of Version 4.0  is to extend support for newer o/s platforms and .NET frameworks along with enhanced support for various foreign (i.e. non-English) language-based Windows installations. 

The major new features of version 4.0 include:

Support for Visual Studio 2008
The Visual Studio integration components of mv.NET have been ported to Visual Studio 2008.  Support for Visual Studio 2005 is still available and, therefore, there are 2 versions of the CIDSetup.exe: 

CIDSetupVS2005.exe
CIDSetupVS2008.exe

The VS2005 setup routine installs the Visual Studio 2005 integration components along with mv.NET assemblies targeted at .NET framework 2.0

The VS2008 setup routine installs the Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 integration components along with mv.NET assemblies targeted at .NET framework 3.5 

.NET Framework Specific Installation Routines
As well as 2 versions of the CID setup routine, there are 2 separate versions of the other mv.NET setup files:

SRDKSetup2.0.exe
SRDKSetup3.5.exe
CRDKSetup2.0.exe
CRDKSetup3.5.exe

The names of these setup routines reflect the version of the .NET framework at which they are targeted.

Support for 64 bit Windows platforms
Version 4.0 introduces support for all 64 bit flavors of Windows platforms.  Most of the mv.NET components have been built so as to allow them to run within the 64 bit CLR.  Only those that, by necessity, have to call 3^rd party 32 bit libraries are built as 32 bit-only assemblies.

Extended Multinational Support
Support for Windows installations running in various high-order bit sensitive language modes (for example Russian) has been added in version 4.0.  Support for U2 NLS is also included.

Connection Management Performance Enhancement
The connection management within mv.NET has been optimized to reduce the connection/session allocation overhead.  This results in even quicker session allocation performance for client applications.

Socket Connectivity Option for D3
Version 4.0 adds an extra connection type (D3ODBC) for D3 databases.  This option utilizes the same low-level socket-based connectivity used by the D3 ODBC driver to provide improved data throughput rates between client and database server.

SSIS Integration Component
Being released at the same time as the mv.NET Version 4.0 launch is a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) component which provides complete integration of the mv.NET ADO.NET provider with the SSIS environment.  This allows drag-and-drop creation of standard SSIS packages within the SSIS design studio, providing seamless transfer of data between MultiValue databases and SQL.  Please note that this SSIS component is a separately chargeable product to mv.NET.  Its official product name is "mv.SSIS".

Explore the rest of mv.NET's features and benefits here or email sales@bluefinity.com for more information!