Hi Bob,
DataClas/NET is a tool that follows the same principles of DataClas/VFP and DataClas/COM. It is a middleware tool that used SQL Server stored procedures to maintain data against SQL Server. We provide a wizard for generating the API for talking to SQL Server tables and a .NET class that maintains a local buffer of data.

This tool like the ones before it wraps the functionality of talking to a SQL server into a simple API. DataClas .NET is used to maintain parent-child-grandchild-great-grandchild-etc... relationships.

The main reason that tools like DC.NET exist is that dealing with ADO.NET in my opinion is overly complex. I wrapped a bunch of functionality into simple classes found in dataclas.NET. To use DC.NET you only need to know a few basic techniques: 1. How to instantiate a SQLConnection and SQLCommand object and how to manipulate data in a dataset. You dont need to get involved in dataadapters, filling datasets, etc...

We have implemented DC.NET in a few customer applications and at some point this summer will proably release something to the public. I have a framework that takes full advantage of DC.NET that is under development.

Also sometime soon I need to finish the updates to my www.foxforum.com site from which I plan on releasing DataClas/NET Jr. that will relase some of the code into the wild.


Thanks,
Rodman