CodeFluent empowers you with an unparalleled end to end solution for generating fully functionnal components starting from an XML model describing your business application.

CodeFluent brings the following features:

Integrated Object Relational Mapper

• Support for standard OOP patterns (1:M, M:1, M:M relations, inheritance, associations)
• Extensive keying support (Guid, integer, strings, entities, composite keys)
• Fully hierarchical model (includes relations generation)
• Integrated query language ("CFQL") for easy custom stored procedure generation, independent from the target relational database system
• CodeDom Generation (supports VB.NET & C#)
• Automatic caching support
• Automatic Binary Large Object (file, document, images, ...) easy handling, with streaming
• Automatic paging support (client and server)
• Automatic sorting support (client and server)
• Support for WPF automatic binding (INotifyPropertyChanged, INotifyCollectionChanged)
• Support for WPF 3.5 automatic validation (IDataErrorInfo)
• Support for ICloneable, IComparable, IEquatable, IList, ICollection, IDictionary and their generic equivalent interfaces
• Full service layer (WCF) and XML serialization (XmlSerializer) support
• Property validation support (StringValidate, RegularExpressionValidate, CompareValidate, ObjectValidate, CustomValidate, ...), with error collections, and specific end-user oriented messages
• Generated model extensible with partial classes or snippet code integrated in the model
• Custom business rule integration
• Integration of ILOG Rules for .NET ® as a business rule engine
• Integration of script engines (VBScript, JScript, ...) as a business rule engine
• Integration of custom .NET Assemblies as a business rule engine
• Integration of ILOG Rules for .NET ® as a business rule engine
• Not based on .NET Framework Reflection mechanisms
• SQL code is not generated dynamically, to ease debugging and favor testability of the solution

SOA Architectures

• Automatic generation of Windows Communication Framework (WCF) facades, server side
• A generic Windows WCF service host is provided, for all Windows versions, so you will not have to write specific Windows services to host your WCF services
• Complete support for WCF extensive configuration capabilities (no specific constraints on bindings, ...)
• Automatic generation of a Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) server for large binary objects (BLOB) upload and download
• Support for client and server inprocess debugging (without an external host server process)
• Automatic generation of a specific enhanced WCF proxy (optional, standard proxy generation is still fully supported) on the client side, for an object oriented approach continuity:
• No need for metadata (mex). Saves network bandwidth
• Automatic generation of custom business rules on the client
• Automatic generation of validation rules on the client
• Support for WPF automatic binding (INotifyPropertyChanged, INotifyCollectionChanged)
• Support for WPF 3.5 automatic validation (IDataErrorInfo)
• Support for WCF streaming for large binary objects (BLOB)
• Support for automatic asynchronous paged mode for large size collections

Couche Web Service V1 (ASMX)

• Automatic generation of ASMX type web service facades
• Automatic generation of custom methods and business rules
• Windows Communication Framework (WCF) compatible

Web Layer

• Automatic ASP.NET custom controls CodeDom generation (supports VB.NET & C#)
• Automatic generation of DropDownList, DataSource, Repeater, DataGrid, EnumList, ...
• Full multilingual support
• Automatic CSS based Web Site creation and deployment
• Template based generation (using Integrated template engine)
• Exclusive Excel ® offline editing & over-the-web synchronization feature (HTTP/HTTPS)
• Automatic generation of fully 100% functionel ASP.Net MembershipProvider, RoleProvider and ProfileProvider based on model entities
• Support of ObjectDataSource, GridView, DetailsView, FormView, ... classes
• Reusable generic ASP.NET provided: BooleanControl, CompareControl, CaptchaControl, CountryDataSource, ...
• Web error automatic reporting feature using IIS SMTP engine

Persistence

• Microsoft SQL Server ® 2000, 2005, 2008
• Oracle 10g support (*)
• Customizable naming convention for tables and stored procedure generation
• Automatic generation of tables
• Automatic generation of stored procedures, including specific ones
• Automatic generation of keys (primary, secondary, foreign)
• Automatic generation of indexes (provided template)
• Automatic generation of enums (provided template)
• Manual (ADO.Net) or implicit (TransactionScope) transaction support
• Integrated concurrency management (RowVersion) for easier disconnected mode or SOA support
• Automatic stored procedure generation using integrated CFQL query language
• Database differential engine for continuous generation and build support
• Database importer for existing databases support

Integrated template engine

• Code generation for text based languages
• Template caching for an increased generation performance
• 100% reusable template engine
• Integrable as an MsBuild Task
• Exclusive Microsoft's RTF support. Allows direct Word ® (all versions) editing for creating reports templates

Internationalization

• Multilingual ready for all parts of the application
• Internationalization model templates provided
• .NET standard resource model support

Tooling

• Client Console
• MSBuild integrable with a provided Task
• Microsoft Visual Studio ® 2003, 2005, 2008 integrable
• Easy preprocessing on the CodeFluent model
• Easily debuggable for an increased productivity (Reflection mechanism is not used)
• CodeFluent is itself a 100% reusable API

Prerequisite

• .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5
• Client: Microsoft Windows ® 2000, XP, Vista
• Server: Microsoft Windows ® 2000, 2003, 2008
• Support for 32 and 64 bits editions
• Microsoft Visual Studio ® is not required

(*) Oracle support (through the Oracle producer) is planned in a future version. If you need this feature for a current project, please feel free to contact us.