Hi,

I was hearing about SF 2.0 for quite a long time, which mentioned will be including a lot of fanstatic features such as LINQ support, ORM mapper and etc. I would like to know, what is your roadmap for this? Will it be 2008, 2009 or... all this features will be released incrementally?



Thank you

Hi Trent,

Could you please tell us what's new in SF 2.0 in Web Side (Not Desktop)?
Any new controls? for example Browse Dialog for Web etc.?

Kind regards...

I can't tell you all of the controls, but I can tell you this.  The one thing that we intend to do on the web side this go around is to make sure that you have many of the tools that you do on the desktop side.  Obviously not all of the tools make sense, but application level controls such as a browse "dialog", even though it won't be a dialog, would be a good example. 

There will be far more templates and RAD tools.  In code and within the designer.  This will translate to both the desktop side as well as the web side.  Take localization for example.  At the moment, there are too many steps to localize while you are coding.  In the code window, you will be able to create a new localization key without having to pop out and go over to a localization editor.  Same through designers.

We will stay true to our current philosophy of allowing you to make changes after the code is generated for a BO.  But there will be more "code generation" and template code that you will be able to implement.

Once we get to the point of showing things that will be making it into the framework for sure we will start posting videos.  This is still a ways out, but we are very excited about SF 2.0 also...remember we use it too!