EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 7, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- IdeaBlade Corporation today announced the 3.0 version of the DevForce Productivity Solution for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The new release improves the DevForce tools, components, and blueprints for building data-driven applications. Developers can focus on the business aspects of the application instead of the infrastructure, thus accelerating time to market, reducing cost and improving their chances for success.
"Developers can deliver compelling enterprise applications more quickly when they use DevForce with Visual Studio 2005," said Christopher Flores, group product manager of the .NET Developer Product Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp. "Microsoft is pleased with the level of integration between DevForce and Visual Studio 2005. When used with Visual Studio 2005, DevForce simplifies the development of distributed solutions."
DevForce provides Internet-connected, data-driven applications with a robust, scalable infrastructure that includes object relational persistence, client-side caching, off-line execution, n-tier deployment, model-view-controller interfaces, and Service Oriented Architectures. Graphical design tools that plug into Visual Studio 2005 speed development and reduce errors. Application blueprints guide developers toward proven designs. This means application developers write less code, more quickly, and with greater confidence. There is less to maintain, less to support, and less to go wrong.
"Our customers report saving 70 percent or more of their development time using their existing teams. This is often the difference between success and failure for an application," said Albert Wang, CEO of IdeaBlade.
"The .NET Framework 2.0 is powerful, but building applications is still a challenge for many organizations," said Billy Hollis, a Microsoft Regional Director and IdeaBlade Technical Advisory Council member. "Developers need an application framework such as DevForce. Otherwise they will waste months reinventing generic functionality instead of working on specific business problems."
Developers and architects can download DevForce Express, an unrestricted, free version for basic client/server applications from www.ideablade.com.
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About IdeaBlade
IdeaBlade, Inc., a venture-backed corporation headquartered in Emeryville, California, provides productivity solutions for rapid development and deployment of enterprise Internet applications. IdeaBlade products help developers focus on delivering business value, accelerate time-to-market, and reduce development and maintenance costs. Founded in 2001, solutions built with IdeaBlade have been deployed by numerous independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises in many industries including: healthcare, insurance, finance, education, agriculture, biotechnology, and business services. IdeaBlade is a Microsoft Certified Partner and member of the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program. More information on IdeaBlade products and services is available at www.ideablade.com.
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