Prospective Software Announces the Immediate Availability of WCF Architect Beta 2

Feb. 2, 2011 - PRLog -- Prospective Software is proud to announce the immediate availability of WCF Architect Beta 2. WCF Architect is a new tool designed to make developing WCF services easier for your developers. This release marks the end of new development in Version 1 and a shift in focus to polishing and improving our product.

To learn more about WCF Architect, click here: http://www.prospectivesoftware.com/architect/

What’s New In Beta 2

Dependency Projects
You will now be able to create a project that can be used as a dependency of another project. This will cause the code generated by the dependency project to be merged with dependent project. A dependency project will not be able to generate its own assemblies or code files. In all other cases, dependency projects support all the features of regular projects. This feature is intended to resolve issues where more than one project is dependent on the same data types or separate projects need access to the same services.

Endpoint Manager for Service Hosts
A new Endpoint Manager is now available in the Hosts section of the Project screen. The Endpoint Manager will allow you to control the creation of endpoints on both the client and server. This will allow you to reduce errors by allowing WCF Architect’s code generation engine to make sure that both the client and server have matching endpoints. WCF Architect’s code generation will also generate methods that will allow you to specify different values for your endpoints on the clients.

Multi-threaded Code Generator
We rebuilt our code generator to make better use of the processing power available on modern machines and greatly improved the speed of our build process.

Support for Properties on Service Clients
In Beta 2, WCF Architect will now generate wrapper properties around these methods on the client. This will enable you to write more consistent and error-free code.

For a full list of all the improvements we've made, please see the following page: http://www.prospectivesoftware.com/community/blog/?p=58

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