04 March 2012

I am pleased to announce the release of CSLA 4 version 4.3. It is available from the CSLA download page and from nuget.

This release adds support for Silverlight 5.

Silverlight 4 is still supported. The assemblies are in a Silverlight4.zip file in the bin folder created by the setup program in your Program Files folder or other install location.

Other major enhancements include:

• New binary serialization scheme for MobileFormatter resulting in substantially smaller data flowing across the data portal from Silverlight and Windows Phone client applications. The ProjectTracker sample application has been updated to use this new scheme – look at the app server web.config and the SilverlightUI and WpUI app.xaml.cs files to see how the client and server configuration is handled.
• Numerous enhancements to the business rules subsystem. See the change log for more information.
• Bug fixes to address some specific data portal issues. See the change log for more information.
• CommandBase now supports managed properties.

With this version, CSLA 4 now supports the following platforms:

• Microsoft .NET 4
  • Windows Forms
  • ASP.NET Web Forms
  • ASP.NET asmx services
  • WPF
  • WCF services
  • ASP.NET MVC 3
• Silverlight 5
• Silverlight 4
• Windows Phone 7.5
• Mono
  • OS X
  • Linux
• Mono for Android

The source code also includes a version of CSLA 4 that builds for WinRT (Windows 8) Consumer Preview. This is largely untested, but does demonstrate that existing business classes (especially those built for 3- and 4-tier deployments in Silverlight) can be simply recompiled for use in WinRT applications. Consider this a preview of CSLA 4 version 4.5, coming later this year with support for .NET 4.5 and WinRT.