Developers interested in working with .NET to build smart-client, n-tier Internet applications can get a powerful boost by working with IdeaBlade DevForce, the industry’s leading .NET application server and development framework.

Some of the key components comprising DevForce include:

• Business object server for high performance data access, centrally hosted security, web service publication, event notification, and remote business logic execution.
• Object oriented persistence for retrieving and saving relational and web service data as object graphs while supporting distributed transactions, optimistic concurrency, remote procedure calls, and asynchronous operations.
• Client-side caching of business objects for ensuring entity identity and reducing network traffic for superior application responsiveness.
• Encrypted, compressed mobile business objects communicated between server and client over high and low bandwidth networks using a variety of protocols including TCP/IP and HTTP.
• Advanced Data Binding designers and managers, which help developers populate forms with multi-vendor UI controls and coordinate data dynamic interchange between those controls and data bound application objects.
• Verification engine for enforcing business rules and data integrity at the object level.
• Object Mapping tool, integrated into Visual Studio, which maps business objects to relational and web service data repositories.
• Offline mode, which ensures resilience and continuous operation when network connections are poor or non-existent.

In this section, you’ll find information and resources designed to assist professional .NET developers: