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What’s coming in LightSpeed 2.1?

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LightSpeed 2.0 has been out the door for a short while now and we have been receiving some fantastic feedback so we thought now would be a good time for a quick sneak-peak at what’s coming in 2.1:

Full text indexing support

Sometimes SQL doesn’t provide the free text searching capabilities that you need (or perhaps your selected database engine has no full text indexing support). LightSpeed 2.1 resolves this by providing a pluggable full text search API and ships with a Lucene.NET provider so that no matter what database engine you’re using, you always have access to extremely fast full text search capabilities.

VistaDB, SQL Server Compact 3.5 and Firebird support

Several customers asked about supporting database engines outside of the 5 that LightSpeed already supported (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite) so we’ve added support for them as well. This means that developers can now leverage our powerful LINQ capabilities when working with VistaDB, SQL Server Compact 3.5 and Firebird.

Improved Designer Support

We have been very impressed by the number of users finding the LightSpeed design surface helpful in building rich domain models and have focused on improvements to performance and features.

Delete Queries

With LightSpeed 2.1 you no longer need to fetch an entity to be able to delete it – simply pass in a query object to delete all records that match that query.

Why tell you now what’s coming up?

For starters, as we add things to LightSpeed for 2.1 they become available to customers in the nightly builds and therefore it can be useful to them to know what cool new features they’re getting free each night.

Secondly, we hope to make new potential users aware of what they will be getting if they become a customer now (all our point releases are free and therefore if you buy today you can start using these features as soon as they become available).

To start working with some of these features download the latest nightly build here (or customers can download the latest nightly build of their licensed version from the store).

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Posted by John-Daniel Trask on 6 July 2008

3 Responses to “What’s coming in LightSpeed 2.1?”

1. Greetings,

   delete queries is one of many things that shows how LS is improving very fast in the right direction that wears its name ;)

   of all the OR/Ms that are avaiable (I think I looked on all of them, there are not so many in the .NET world) this one is becoming more and more interesting to compete the big 3, the only _major_ feature it lacks for me for now is MONO support.

   As MONO is working natively with PostgreSQL as a DBs (which is supported by MONO and is my preferred DB engine), would it be possible to get LS working with MONO platform on Linux?
   MONO has matured tremendously in the last couple of months and some (bigger and more complex – not allways advantage) commercial OR/Ms do have this ability.

   If you are at least _planning_ for supporting it in the future I am a follower ;). After all LS isn’t 10MBs big complex OR/M but a neat, small, and mostly “only” .NET 2.0 written – so it shouldn’t be a problem to port all its goodnes to linux world (where MONO runs best).

   I do love windows, but hey, there is sometimes another world…

   cowgaR Jul 7th, 2008

2. I thought C# 2.0 written (w/o LINQ provider of course), ah what a mistake ;)

   cowgaR Jul 7th, 2008

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