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A new version of the Opf3 Framework has been released. The following is the list of changes and fixes: Opf3 goes open source and is now hosted at http://opf3.codeplex.com/ Some improvements with LINQ Lots of minor improvements More...

A new version of the Opf3 Framework has been released. The following is the list of changes and fixes: Added support for the Sqlite database (Chili.Opf3.Storages.Sqlite.SqliteStorage). Added functionality to check whether the related objects... More...

The Opf3 Wizard has been updated to a newer version where a lot of known bug have been fixed. Thanks for all the feedback! The new version of Opf3 has been released. Some changes are: Added features to make Opf3 Core LINQ compatible. Added L... More...

The new version of Opf3 has been released. Some changes are: IRelationsPopulateHelper: http://www.opf3.com/Opf3/Community/Topic.aspx?Forum=5&Topic=1248 IPopulateHelperExtended: http://www.opf3.com/Opf3/Community/Topic.aspx?Forum=5&Topic=1247 ... More...

I (Christian Liensberger) got a blog over at my personal web site... Perhaps somebody might be interested... I'm also going to post stuff on Opf3. The URL is: http://www.liensberger.it/web/blog/ --) More...

The new version of Opf3 has been released. Some changes are: SqlRawStorageAccess Class has been added and allows to access the internal objects of an SQL storage (at the moment all storages that are implemented for Opf3). This allows to manipula... More...

The next version of Opf3 has been released. Some of the changes are: Added Caching: http://www.opf3.com/Opf3/Community/Topic.aspx?Forum=5&Topic=690 Added IDynamicPopulateHelper: http://www.opf3.com/Opf3/Community/Topic.aspx?Forum=5&Topic=8... More...

Our web hoster applied a security update to its servers, which made our side crash (and a lot other sites!). After fixing most of the issues introduced with the new security updates, we are up and running again. If you encounter any problems, plea... More...

The next version of Opf3 has been released. Some of the changes are: Added TypeMapping and Chili.Opf3.Mapping namespace to use Opf3 persistent type mappings outside of Opf3: http://www.opf3.com/Opf3/Community/Topic.aspx?Forum=5&Topic=435 Enh... More...

Opf3 is now available as Express Edition. The package is completely free, but only suitable for small projects. It is limited to up to 8 persistent classes and does include all other features of the other full packages. More information is found h... More...

The new version can be found in the download area of this website. It contains a few bug fixes and introduces the functionality to add own types (for example EncryptedString), initializer (eg. new Blob()), and name conditions (binds types with pr... More...

We have created a new forum "Announcements". The Opf3 developers will post there from time to time to discuss new features that we plan to implement or have been implemented recently. It would be cool, if you could give us feedback about how we imple... More...

A new version of the Opf3 Framework has been uploaded. We have enhanced the speed of loading persistent objects and improved a lot other features of the framework. Check out the changes list in the Download section of the page. More...

The presentation that has been used on the dotnetpro persistence.day is now online. It has replaced the old Opf3 presentation. Click here to download the Opf3 presentation: http://www.opf3.com/Opf3/Download/Other.aspx The presentation contain... More...

We released the new demo version of the Opf3 Wizard today. Some of the updates are: Added searcher plug-in. Added simple plug-in as template for customized plug-ins. Created a setup for the Opf3 Wizard. Associated .wpxml files with t... More...

Some minor fixes have been applied. One of them fixed an issue with views and SQL Server 2000. More...

We released the new demo version of the Opf3 Wizard today. Some of the updates are: Added primary key detection. Added index detection. Added view detection. Added possibility to modify the indexes. Modified the persistent dial... More...

The MySQL storage class for the Opf3 Framework is now available. You may download the storage in the "Download" section of this web site. The storage works with the .NET adapter for MySQL and the MySQL server version 5.0 or higher. We hope you ... More...

The complete "Beginner Series" is now online. This tutorial series shows the basic features of the Opf3 Framework. We are planning to release an intermediate series soon. The focus will be on relations and other more advanced concepts of the frame... More...

We released the new demo version of the Opf3 Wizard today. This version has been extended by a template for VB.NET. The output of the Demo has been completely disabled. Get the demo now to check out the new features. Update 02/01/2005: Update... More...

We released today two updates for VistaDB and Firebird. VistaDB We had an issue with the AutoNumber properties. They weren't working properly in the older versions. Firebird We switched now to the .NET 2.0 provider for Firebird. Make sure to ... More...

We released the new demo version of the Opf3 Framework, version 3.0.5.416, now. This version adds as new feature a new class called ObjectView that allows to create independent views for every instance of an ObjectSet. Filtering of the ObjectView is ... More...

We are proud to announce that the new Opf3 Web site got online today. The site contains now more documentation and information about the Opf3 Framework and the Opf3 Wizard. We added also a community section, tutorials and a customer area. Every cu... More...

The RC1 version of the Opf3 Wizard is ready and uploaded to our servers. The Wizard is now more stable and allows to customize the peristent objects even more. We released also a demo version of the Opf3 Wizard. You may download it in the downloa... More...

A new version of the Opf3 Framework has been uploaded. This version is now fully compatible with .NET 2.0 RTM! The different packages for Opf3 have also been updated. All updates are found in the Download section of the page. ::-) More...

The Opf3 Wizard includes now the full commented source code. Buy the Wizard to get a compiled version of the tool and the full commented source code. :-) Adding the source code allows you to customize every little feature of the Wizard. You may in... More...

A new version of the framework has been uploaded. The different packages for Opf3 have also been updated. All updates are found in the Download section of the page. The framework supports now also a new storage: Opf3.Storages.Firebird: The fram... More...

The BETA 2 version of the Opf3 Wizard is ready and uploaded to our servers. Everybody who already bought a version of Opf3 gets a single developer license of the Opf3 Wizard for free. When you buy Opf3 until the 30th of september 2005 you get also a ... More...

The BETA1 version of the Opf3 Wizard is ready and uploaded to our servers. Everybody who already bought a version of Opf3 got a single developer license of the Opf3 Wizard for free. Do you want a copy of the Opf3 Wizard for free? If you buy a... More...

The Alpha 1 of the Opf3 Wizard is ready and ships for free to our customer. Want get in touch with the new tool. Buy Opf3 right now. More...

A new version of the framework has been uploaded. The different packages for Opf3 have also been updated. All updates are found in the download section of the page. The framework supports now also two additional storages: Opf3.Storages.PostgreS... More...

A new version of Opf3 has been released. This version is tested with web services and should be compatible with them. A list of updates is found in the download section. The tutorial and samples have also been updated. They contain now a sample of... More...

Opf3 is now available for buy . Microsoft has released the Beta 2 of their framework, which allows us to sell Opf3. A new version of the framework has been uploaded. A list of updates is found in the download section. The following packages ha... More...

It seems like that in 12 days .NET 2.0 BETA 2 and Whidbey BETA 2 is going to be available. Soon after Microsoft shipped their products also Opf3 will be available for buy. Stay tuned. Opf3 is now part of Chili Software. Chili Software is a group o... More...

The Opf3 BETA 2 demo is now also available for the Whidbey February Community Technology Preview. There were some issues with Opf3 and the February CTP, since Microsoft made some changes in the .NET 2.0 Framework. This build solves them. The versi... More...

The second public beta of the new Opf3 framework has been uploaded to our server. You are free to test the framework and give us feedback on bugs or suggestions that you have. For any suggestion or bug that your find go to the Contact section and wr... More...

We are currently working on BETA 2 of Opf3. With the next release there are going to be a few changes - most of them are internal. We are for example developing a faster and cleaner parsing of ObjectQueries. You are also getting a better and easier a... More...

Today a new version of the Persistent classes generation script has been released. The bug with creating the IPopulateHelper interface for the persistent object has been fixed. The new version is found on the Download page. More...

Today we released a script (done with the free script editor MyGeneration) that allows you to generate persistent classes for the Opf3 framework. It offers a nice GUI, which allows to customize the generated persistent class. The download link is fo... More...

An introducing Powerpoint presentation of the Opf3 framework has been published. The download link is found on the Download page of the homepage. We hope that the presentation gives you a quick introduction to the framework. Check it out! More...

We are proud to announce that the first public beta of the new Opf3 framework has been uploaded to our server. You are free to test the framework and give us feedback on bugs or suggestions that you have. For any suggestion or bug that your find go t... More...