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Surround Technologies announces the general availability of version 4.2 of its Accelerator for .NET software development platform, a premier productivity solution for the development and use of desktop, browser and mobile .NET applications with Windows, Windows Azure, IBM i and IBM System z. Whether modernizing legacy applications or creating new functionality, with Accelerator developers can develop faster, with better results, and more functionality to deliver the software your customers, employees, business partners, and vendors will love, without limitations, lock in or dead ends.

 

Accelerator for .NET Version 4.2 builds on top of the amazing success of its 4.0 release earlier this year.  Launching with this version is the much anticipated out-of-the-box generation enhanced Mobile User Interface.  Built on ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Mobile technology the mobile experience will provide everything needed to put your business at your user’s finger tips.

 

Included in this version you will find generation wizard improvements, as well as the all new Code Enhancer utility.  Multiple launch pad configurations enables faster access to multi-platform development and a database analysis wizard provides information for quickly and accurately estimating a development project.  Also, support for DB2 for .NET has been added and a plethora of new code snippets for even more developer productivity. Detailed features in version 4.2 include:

 

      • Code Enhancer– The Accelerator Generation Wizards have always been fundamental in Accelerating the Development of a complete end-to-end system.  While the Generation Wizards generate new code, the Code Enhancer is a new tool that allows a developer to update existing generated code that has already been customized by a developer within Visual Studio.  The CodeEnhancer Compares your database and generated programs to analyze changes, identify impact and suggest code enhancements to keep them both in synch and retain all code customizations.  Analysis includes fields that have been added, changed and removed from the database or entities. This analysis ensures programs are fully updated with any changes made to the datastore.
      • Generation Wizard Improvements – Generation continues to become even more intuitive and more efficient with each new version.  We continue to add more capabilities to the wizards that provide greater time savings for the developer.  Our out-of-the-box generated code continues to incoroporate more and more features as more patterns are identified during the post generation enrichment process. This new version pulls in database relationships and automatically defines them to the Accelerator generation.  You can continue to define additional relationships that may not be defined at the database level. Virtual field generation has been added to the wizards and include concatenation, mathematical calculation, and substringing of data from other fields or literals. All the code necessary to handle the Join Fields from our 4.0 release and now these new Virtual Fields is automatically generated for you.  Numerous improvements to the default UX as well as generation speed improvements have also been made.
      • Database Analysis Wizard – This new wizard is a simplified version of the System Wizard that  to identify database Tables(Files), Columns(Fields) and Relationships to produce detailed reports can be used to size systems, estimate development efforts and create database ERDs.  The progress file that is created from this wizard can be used to feed the System Wizard for generation. The reports are also available in the System Wizard Summary Screen. 
      • Multiple Launchpad Configurations – You now have the ability to create multiple named configurations that can store the connection information for different Data Servers and Accelerator Services. You can create, copy, change and delete these named configurations. This is helpful with different connection information for Development, Test and Production Environments and for developing systems against multiple data sources and servers.
      • ASP.NET MVC HTML5 Browser Menu – There have been numerous user productivity enhancements to the HTML5 Browser View including a new design for the Main Menu.  The Main Menu can be collapsed to provide maximum desktop space with the ability to have quick access to the items as a fly out. By providing the ability to access navigation, search, attachments and more with a single click from any screen at anytime, users are able to more efficiently interact and multi-task with the HTML5 version of the Accelerator than ever before.  Customized favorites and recent lists follow the user from desktop to browser and mobile so you can pause what your doing, and get right back to it from your mobile device without missing a beat.
      • ASP.NET MVC HTML5 Mobile UX – The wizards now support generating a jQuery Mobile view in additional to the already supported browser view.  This new ASP.NET view uses the power of jQuery Mobile to provide a complete User Experience for Navigating modules and their relationships as well as selecting, inserting, updating and deleting data.  The Mobile UX has overlooked no small detail.  Users are provided a full set of tools they have grown accustomed to in both their desktop and browser versions in an intuitive smaller form factor design.  A custom mobile view aims to deliver a smooth UI that allows users on the go the ability to do their job while on the move.  Data is delivered in pages with simple back and forward navigation and easy to understand menus to traverse systems large or small with ease.  
      • DB2 for .NET Provider (IBM.Data.DB2) Support – Adding to our long time support for the DB2 for IBM i .NET Data Provider (IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries), we have now added support for the DB2 for .NET Provider that is licensed with IBM's DB2 Connect. This provider supports enterprises that need to access DB2 on both the IBM i and the IBM System z servers. 
      • Code Snippets – Code snippets are small blocks of reusable code that can be added to your code file using a simple context menu command and/or hotkeys. Code Snippets can help Accelerate your development by saving you time from typing commonly used pieces of code. This cuts down on common mistakes and typos thatincrease development time to debug. The Accelerator Code Snippets follow the same coding standards as the generated code to ensure consistent coding format for all developers.  The Accelerator Code Snippets are installed with the product and can be shared with all developers. We will continue to grow our library of snippets in future releases.  



Accelerator for .NET Version 4.2redefines the environment in which users can perform their work and the workspace that they can create for themselves. The Accelerator allows for a range of options, from reusing code in the background while building a rich user interface, to completely rebuilding systems, and everything in between. Additional Information can be found on http://www.surroundtech.com or by requesting additional materials from Lee Paul, Media Contact for this release.

Surround Technologies is a software innovation business with solutions and services to substantially accelerate the development and delivery of state-of-the-art software for companies of all sizes and in any industry. Surround’s flagship product, Accelerator Development Solutions, is a complete suite of Open Frameworks and Tools for fast, continual, and iterative delivery of Next Generation Advanced Agile Software by empowering developers to develop faster, develop better and develop more than one would ever think was possible. The resulting systems allow for the seamless integration of .NET with IBM i or Windows servers to enhance user experience and productivity, and drive greater growth and profit for the organizations served. Learn more at www.SurroundTech.com.

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