WebORB for .NET 3.0RC1 is released

I am very pleased to announce the availability of WebORB 3.0 Release Candidate 1. The release is the latest in the area of Flex and .NET integration. The product provides a single environment for hosting and exposing .NET objects to Flex, Flash and AJAX clients.

Here's what's new in 3.0:

• Completely redesigned Flex-based management console
• Service Browser - a feature enabling users to graphically inspect the classes deployed in a weborb-enabled application
• Client-side code generator - enables a developer to automatically generate client access code for any server-side class. Generated code can have multiple "flavors" including Flex/AS3, Flash Remoting/AS2, Remoting with Cairngorm, Remoting with ARP and AJAX.
• TestDrive - provides a mechanism to invoke any server-side method directly from the console. TestDrive has an intuitive interface for entering method argument values used in the invocation. TestDrive lets you download the code performing an invocation with the same argument values as entered in the UI.
• Auto-deployment - the console provides a drag-and-drop deployment mechanism for deploying WebORB into any existing virtual directory
• Support for Flex client security API (RemoteObject.setCredentials)
• New Flex Remoting examples
• Improved logging
• Improved server-to-client exception handling
• Flex upload enabling framework

The product can be downloaded using the download manager on our website.

Shortly I'll be posting video tutorials describing the new features. There is also a ton of interesting stuff we had learned while working on the new console. I'll be sharing these findings in the blog as well.