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DevForce Family of Products
DevForce is the industry’s most mature and extensible .NET application server and development framework. DevForce simplifies data access, improves user-interface design, and enables rich on-demand applications to operate over the internet. In addition, DevForce provides a complete migration path to, and support for next-generation Microsoft technologies such as LINQ, Entity Framework, WPF, and Silverlight.


Protect Your .NET Investment

The DevForce family of products protects your investment in people, software, and processes by bridging your development to future Microsoft technologies. Whether you are ready to take on new technologies today such as the Entity Framework or Silverlight or have plans to migrate to these technologies in the future, DevForce ensures a smooth upgrade path with a consistent development methodology and discounted upgrade pricing.


One Domain Model

Regardless of whether you’ve chosen to use WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight, or a mixture of these technologies, DevForce enables you to develop a single, rich domain model that can be shared across all of these environments. The client-side application also has access to the same business object model as the server, so there is no need to create duplicate logic that has to be kept in sync.

DevForce products are available in three Classic editions and three EF editions to accommodate the needs of small development teams to large enterprise organizations.



DevForce EF
Cutting Edge

DevForce EF is our latest product supporting Microsoft’s LINQ and the Entity Framework. For those needing to adopt the latest technologies, DevForce EF makes the Entity Framework easier to use, improves performance, and adds many enterprise capabilities including n-tier data access, client-side caching, offline operation, and business rule validation. DevForce EF carries forward most of the features and all of our experience from DevForce "Classic" dating back to 2001.



DevForce Classic
Reliable

DevForce Classic is a comprehensive platform that enables enterprise .NET development and deployment for 2-tier and n-tier environments. Key features include enterprise-grade object persistence, client-side caching, advanced WinForms data binding, business rule validation, and offline operation. DevForce Classic gives you most of the benefits of the Entity Framework today and provides a safe development path to using the Entity Framework tomorrow.