Any idea when you will be releasing one of your database providers, so that we can create a provider?

We are not ignoring you, let us get this beta out this weekend and then we'll respond.

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I didn't think you were.  I actually did not expect a response until after you got the beta out.  Thanks for confirming though.

Is there any information available on releasing one of the database providers sources yet?

Our plan is to add DB2 and SQLite support in ES2009. Also, ES2009 will ship with it's own built in code generation system so that is when we will open up the provider model, as you will have to provide two providers, one to supply the metadata during code generation and the EntitySpaces provider as well. However, there aren't going to be too many unsupported databases once ES2009 is released. ES2009 will be built using the Visual Studio Shell so it will run inside of Visual Studio itself (the Shell can run in isolated mode so it can run without VS studio as well). I hope this gives you some insight. 

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So, 3rd party support is not going to be enabled in ES2008 as stated in the Roadmap.

Mike.Griffin:

.... Also, ES2009 will ship with it's own built in code generation system so that is when we will open up the provider model, as you will have to provide two providers

Hi

I didn't read that the way you did - Mike's statement/comment says the model will be opened up with ES2009 so it looks like it will definitely support 3rd party etc unless I'm completely misunderstanding

Cheers

Martin