Quino 1.1.0.0 Released

Encodo Systems AG[1] has released Quino 1.1.0.0 to licensed customers; test licenses are available on request. Feel free to contact them at “info [at] encodo [dot] ch”. Read the Quino Fact Sheet for an in-depth overview.

Big, new features include:

• Multi-language support
• Remote method execution
• Remote query execution
• Full support for Microsoft SQL Server (including schema migration)
• Improved support for object graphs in the ORM
• Typed constants in the metadata
• Beta support for ASP.NET MVC

More information is available at the Quino home page, including the original Metadata in Software Development paper as well as the aforementioned Quino Fact Sheet (excerpted below).

“What is Quino? Quino is a metadata framework written in C# 3.5. How does a metadata framework differ from an application framework? Application frameworks generally dictate much of the infrastructure of an application. An application can extend the framework only if it offers some way of extending it; if not, the application developer is often left without help at all. If a developer wants to extend or improve the user interface, for example, they have to work within the bounds defined by the user interface support provided by the application framework.

Quino, being a metadata framework, is different. The philosophy behind Quino is that metadata is great. Metadata enables generic programming and allows a developer to write or generate entire swathes of your application with very little effort—and great results—and therefore free up previous time to fine-tune the parts of the application that make it really stand out. It’s about spending time on the stuff that really matters instead of down in the trenches, connecting to databases, marshalling objects or painstakingly placing controls on forms or web pages.”