Devart today releases dbForge Studio for MySQL, v4.50 - cutting-edge administration tool and development environment for professional working with MySQL databases.

Devart has recently announced the release of a new totally free code comparison tool that is integrated into Visual Studio that helps you make all of the development and merging operations within one environment at the same time.

June 29, 2010 – Vermont Information Processing (VIP), IT solutions supplier to the beverage wholesale industry, has utilized Original Software’s end-to-end testing solution to increase its software quality. Even with an intensely accelerated development schedule, VIP has improved its customer upgrade experience and reduced pressure on its support team. This in turn has enabled the business to respond effectively to the complex requirements of its customers during volatile market conditions. 

The goal of this book is to propose a vision of Agile software development that goes behind the current practices, more specifically Scrum, to integrate the principles of Lean development. To achieve this objective, the authors draw on their own experience in Agile consulting.

Methods & Tools is a free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers. Summer 2010 issue has just been published with the following articles:
* Aspects of Kanban - Lean Worfklow Management
* Test Language - Introduction to Keyword Driven Testing
* A High Volume Software Product Line
* Better Requirements Definition Management is Better for Business
* The Core Protocols, an Experience Report - Tools for High Performance Teams
* Tool: eValid- Functional and Load Web Testing
* Tool: Hudson- Continuous Integration Server
* Tool: FitNesse - Test Cases Management
* Tool: VoodooMock - Mock Objects Framework for C++
* Conference: Jazoon

18 June 2010 – Original Software, the Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, today announced the launch of Qualify, a brand new addition to its solution suite. Designed from the ground up to answer the growing need for QA to be less siloed, Qualify has brought effective Quality Management right into the heart of the software delivery process. This launch comes off the back of a new survey* which highlighted discontent in the market, with 84% of users stating that current products do not meet their functional requirements. 

Waltham, MA, June 16, 2010 - The assemblies’ size of RadControls for Silverlight and consecutively the size of your XAP file is no longer an issue thanks to a brand new tool – Telerik Assembly Minifier. The end-users will immediately feel the difference too, because the loading time of your Silverlight application will be significantly decreased.

Devart has recently announced the release of LinqConnect - an enhanced LINQ to SQL compatible ORM solution with extended functionality, support for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite, its own visual model designer, seamlessly integrating to Visual Studio, and SQL monitoring tool.

LinqConnect allows you to quickly create mapping model and generate data access layer code for your application, greatly decreasing development time and eliminating the need to work over routine tasks. It was developed closely to the Microsoft LINQ to SQL technology, while extending its functionality, thus allowing LINQ to SQL developer to easily get started with LinqConnect.

In addition to LINQ to SQL features, LinqConnect provides its own advanced functionality. LinqConnect has complete support for complex types, allowing you to create entity properties with internal structure. With ID Generation feature you may just set an attribute for the property to use unique value generation for it. LinqConnect caches compiled queries automatically, while allowing you to set cache parameters and control caching process. This is just a part of LinqConnect unique features.

LinqConnect supports SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. It provides the same interface to all database servers, allowing you to easily develop applications that are able to use different databases.

Please, feel free to download, try and write any comments or suggestions about our products!

Pricing and Availability

A Single license costs $249.95. To learn more, download trial edition, or order a license please visit the Devart site: www.devart.com/linqconnect/.

About Devart

Devart is a software development company with 11 years of experience on the software market and over 20 thousands of devoted users. We specialize in providing native connectivity solutions as well as comprehensive development and management tools for the most popular databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird, and SQLite.

For additional information about Devart, visit www.devart.com/company/.

Devart has recently announced the release of dotConnect products for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite - ADO.NET providers that offer Entity Framework support, LINQ to SQL support, and contain an ORM model designer for developing LINQ to SQL and EF models based on different database engines.

New dotConnect ADO.NET Providers offer advanced LinqConnect ORM solution (formerly known as Devart LINQ support) closely compatible with Microsoft LINQ to SQL and having its own advanced features.

Devart LINQ to SQL support technology was greatly enhanced and renamed to Devart LinqConnect. Complex types were supported for more precise presentation of the denormalized table structure and for returning specific types from stored procedures and functions. Support for different configurable algorithms for primary key generation was added. LINQ performance was greatly improved. CompiledQueryCache class now allows you to manage automatic caching of compiled LINQ queries.

Password salt was supported in the ASP.NET membership providers, and the Upgrade wizard was improved.

Please, feel free to download, try, and write any comments and suggestions about our products!

Pricing and Availability

We offer a free Express edition for each product from the dotConnect product line.

A Single license price starts from as little as $99.95, and you can always choose the edition that matches your needs best. To learn more, download trial and free editions, or order a license please visit Devart site: www.devart.com/dotconnect/.

About Devart

Devart is a software development company with 11 years of experience on the software market and over 20 thousands of devoted users. We specialize in providing native connectivity solutions as well as comprehensive development and management tools for the most popular databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird, and SQLite.

For additional information about Devart, visit www.devart.com/company/.

Professional tool to replace tedious code typing with visual query building

Devart development team is glad to present dbForge Query Builder for SQL Server, a modern and affordable tool that will bring you confidence in creating queries of any complexity. With dbForge Query Builder, Devart continues its initiative to produce efficient database experiences for all the people in SQL Server world.

Designed specifically for people who are working with databases, dbForge Query Builder blends rich functionality and a simple user interface to provide:

• Visual query creation

  Users can quickly build any SELECT statements containing multiple tables, joins, conditions, and subqueries without typing any code. The state-of-art diagram visually presents all elements of the query. Tables can be quickly added to a query via drag-and-dropping. Using the powerful expression editor, user can effortlessly control columns, aliases, and functions in one place, set composite WHERE and HAVING conditions, and quickly change grouping and ordering. Queries can be saved to a file.

• Advanced SQL handling

  To speed up coding and script development, dbForge Query Builder offers the SQL editor with the following features:

  • Syntax highlight during typing
  • Automatic syntax check
  • Code outlining with ability to create user-defined outlining regions
  • Code commenting in one click
  • Incremental search
  • Extended options for code formatting
  • SQL history
  • Script navigation with the Document Outline window
• Enhanced working with data

  dbForge Query Builder gives new experiences to analyze and process received data efficiently. To get better insight into the query results, the users can group, filter, and sort data in the grid, view data rows as neat cards, print the selected data, display large bulks of data in the paginal mode, and work with binary and long text data fields using LOB (Large Object) windows.

  The auto-search mode can save hours of precious time spent on finding the required data. Quick control of the data update process is guaranteed with both cached and write-through update modes, and connection-level transactions.

Pricing and Availability

The fully functional trial version of dbForge Query Builder for SQL Server 1.00 is available for download at http://devart.com/dbforge/sql/querybuilder/download.html. The license price of dbForge Query Builder for SQL Server is $99.95. It comes with a free 1-year subscription for product upgrades and technical support.

About Devart

Devart is a software development company with 11 years of experience on the software market and over 20 thousands of devoted users. We specialize in providing comprehensive development and management tools as well as native connectivity solutions for the most popular databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird, and SQLite.

For additional information about Devart, visit www.devart.com/company/.