Vista Software Announces VistaDB 3.0

Vista Software Announces VistaDB 3.0

Vista Software announced the Community Technology Previewpublic release of VistaDB 3.0, a fully managed and typesafe SQL database enginefor the Microsoft .NET Framework, Compact Framework, and Mono environments.VistaDB 3.0 enables software developers to build fully managed WinForms andASP.NET database applications that target desktops, mobile devices, and Webservers.

 VistaDB 3.0 wasnot ported from existing VistaDB 2.x code base, but rather was designed anddeveloped from scratch to take full advantage of the features provided byMicrosoft s Visual C# language and the classes in the .NET Framework.

 VistaDB 3.0features a fully managed and typesafe single assembly developed in Visual C#; a600KB embedded footprint; Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL-compatible SQL syntax; a managedADO.NET provider; Unicode support; Snapshot Isolation-level transactionprocessing that eliminates deadlocks; 4TB of storage per database; direct DataAccess objects for high-speed live cursor support; deep integration into theVisual Studio 2005 IDE, including support for Server Explorer; a managed DataBuilder tool, which allows developers to visually create and manage databases;a managed Data Migration Wizard that migrates existing databases to VistaDBformat; and royalty-free distribution.

 Other featuresexpected in the final release include hosting of the .NET Framework CommonLanguage Runtime (CLR) and StoredCode, which allows proceduresdeveloped using Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Basic .NET to be stored and runfrom within a VistaDB database at run time, as well as views and classic storedprocedures.

Vista Software

Price: US$349;existing customers can upgrade for US$249

Web Site: http://www.vistadb.net