For all customers, the beta is now upon us: http://www.llblgen.com/pages/secure/betas.aspx

Please please PLEASE read the enclosed llblgenpro.chm BEFORE doing anything else. It contains important information about migrating your existing code, making backups etc.

Feedback should be placed in the LLBLGen Pro v2.0 forums.

The reference manuals will be added soon (probably tomorrow).

Downloading as we speak....

Downloading as we speak... hey... that was MY text !

Anyway... what is this... on sunday ? don't you ever take a rest? Not that i'm complaining mind you...

downloaded and think i found first problem:

contruct target per entities hierarchies doesn't work anymore.

in 2005.1 worked fine and found all hierarchies correctly. any idea how i might get this back?

-edit

doesn't seem to be catching relations either? i'm sure i'm not supposed to have to map these all manually now.

OK Ad, I'm sorry about using YOUR line :-) Already compiling your first 2.0 project ?

Ok serious issue indeed, it doesn't read relations on SQLServer. Looking into it.

Ok found the bug in the sqlserver driver. Fixing now.

What about purchasing a license for v2.0? I have currently been evaluating the product and am ready to purchase a license, I would like to start using v2.0 beta but do not want to purchase a v1.0 license and then have to pay to upgrade later?

There is a fee to upgrade to v2.0 license, correct?

Ok Fixed.

I'm uploading a new version of the beta 'as we speak'. It will take 2 minutes or so,

Please re-download the beta as soon as the item on the beta's page has been changed, so 3 minutes or so from now.

Further beta feedback -> beta forums.

tangent wrote:

What about purchasing a license for v2.0? I have currently been evaluating the product and am ready to purchase a license, I would like to start using v2.0 beta but do not want to purchase a v1.0 license and then have to pay to upgrade later?

There is a fee to upgrade to v2.0 license, correct?

There is an upgrade fee I'm afraid, but it's only 49 euro p.p. Licensing will change with v2.0, from department to individual, while the base price of 229 euro stays the same. This means that if you're in a team of 2 or more people, you'd be better off purchasing now and upgrading later. If you're on your own, you could wait, but as the beta is only open to customers, you wouldn't be able to try it...

It wouldn't be fair for our 'old' and very faithful customers to offer free upgrading to 'new' ones

Thanks. I'll re-download and try again.

** Also I got a popup telling me Janus wasn't licensed to me although it didn't seem to prevent me from doing anything. I beleive that's a UI control used in LLBLGen designer right. You may want to look into it.

Yeah, I fixed that one too. Was a licenses.licx issue, some control wasn't registered in that license file.

Aglaia wrote:

There is an upgrade fee I'm afraid, but it's only 49 euro p.p. Licensing will change with v2.0, from department to individual, while the base price of 229 euro stays the same. This means that if you're in a team of 2 or more people, you'd be better off purchasing now and upgrading later. If you're on your own, you could wait, but as the beta is only open to customers, you wouldn't be able to try it...

It wouldn't be fair for our 'old' and very faithful customers to offer free upgrading to 'new' ones

Yeah I am a solo developer and only need an individual license, I was wondering more about the possibility of pre-purchasing a v2.0 license now (or soon), rather than buying a 1.0 license and then upgrading.

I am really itching to try the new features in v2.0, but I suppose I can contain myself until it is officially released

I'm in DUBAI for three weeks an will not have a chance to start plying around with the v2.0 until I'm back in Kuwait

W00t! Grats, Frans. I know this was a lot of hard work, but I know it pays off. I'll be DL'ing soon.

Jeff...

jeffreygg wrote:

... I'll be DL'ing soon.

Huh, I have almost read DLinq

mihies wrote:

jeffreygg wrote:

... I'll be DL'ing soon.

Huh, I have almost read DLinq

they wish! .

From where to download the beta?

When I click the download, I get the v1.0, and not the v2.0.

Thanks

Gabor

Betas section http://www.llblgen.com/pages/secure/betas.aspx

Any chance that a noncustomer sees the beta?

mihies wrote:

Any chance that a noncustomer sees the beta?

The release will be any day. I think you will be able then to download a restricted version. So just hold on for a while.

mihies wrote:

Any chance that a noncustomer sees the beta?

Become a customer. You won't regret it.

Jeff wrote:

mihies wrote:

Any chance that a noncustomer sees the beta?

Become a customer. You won't regret it.

Hi,

Yes, I know. But unfortunatelly it is more complicated than that :-). At the time when I needed a good ORM, LLBLGen didn't support .net 2 natively thus I went with a competiton. So I won't switch ORM just like that now. Now I might reconsider though as I always knew that LLBLGen is an excellent ORM.

mihies wrote:

Jeff wrote:

mihies wrote:

Any chance that a noncustomer sees the beta?

Become a customer. You won't regret it.

Hi,

Yes, I know. But unfortunatelly it is more complicated than that :-). At the time when I needed a good ORM, LLBLGen didn't support .net 2 natively thus I went with a competiton. So I won't switch ORM just like that now. Now I might reconsider though as I know that LLBLGen is an excellent ORM.

First thought which flew through my mind was: "why would a DXSquad member reconsider the competition again?"

Why not? :-) I already stated I think, that if I were to make an ORM (which I would if I had time) I would make it very similarily to LLBLGen, except for fetching server generated values on the fly and using CodeSmith (because I am used to it) as a code generator :-P - IOW LLBLGen feels very native to me. I guess I have to work with it for a while to find its downsides (if there are any), however, I have a very good feeling about it.