10/11/07 True.com selects Midnight Coders for delivery of next generation online dating services. WebORB to power video chat for 20,000,000 online users.
9/30/07 Midnight Coders founder to conduct 4 hands-on sessions on Flex and .NET integration at the MAX'07 conference in Chicago.
9/30/07 Midnight Coders co-sponsors Adobe MAX 2007. Visit us in our booth in the StartupCity pavilion.
9/25/07 Midnight Coders founder conducts an Adobe web seminar on the subject of Flex and .NET data management.
9/17/07 Adobe developer center publishes a recording of the Flex and .NET Integration seminar conducted by Mark Piller
8/12/07 Midnight Coders co-sponsors the 360Flex conference in Seattle. Visit our booth in the vendor pavilion. Mark Piller to present on the subject of Flex and .NET integration as well as discuss the latest developments in the WebORB product line.
7/10/07 Midnight Coders CEO to speak on the subject of AIR and .NET integration at the Seattle and Dallas stops of the Adobe OnAIR Bus Tour.
7/06/07 WebORB for PHP v 2.0 is released. The new release delivers a variety of new features and enhancements. See the product release history for details.
6/25/07 Midnight Coders at FlexManiacs in Washington DC. Midnight Coders founder and CEO, Mark Piller presents at the FlexManiacs conference. Presentations subjects include "Flex without Java", "PHP and RIAs" and a hands-on session on Flex and PHP
6/15/07 WebORB for .NET 3.2 is released. The release includes multiple bug fixes and delivers several significant features including Flex Builder plugin, AMF response auto-compression, security framework enhancements and many more. Details are available in the release history.
5/16/07 Flex Remoting is available in the WebORB Standard Edition for .NET. The latest WebORB for .NET release (3.1.0.3) delivers a very important change in the WebORB for .NET feature line up. Flex Remoting (AMF3) integration is now available in the free Standard Edition of the product. Companies can build Flex applications with a .NET backend with no infrastructure cost and enjoy many of the WebORB features. The Standard Edition includes RemoteObject support, management console, code generator, AMF0 (Flash Remoting) implementation and many more very cool features to make Flex/Flash development a very enjoyable experience.
5/16/07 New Download and Licensing Center is available. We are proud to open up new product download center - a Flex application integrated with a .NET backend powered by WebORB. The new center makes it easies to download our products and obtain product license keys. There is a new management facility coordinating license key requests.
5/15/07 WebORB for .NET 3.1.0.3 is released. The new release brings the Enterprise Edition a step closer to the production quality. The release includes several important bug fixes and features:
- Flex Remoting (AMF3) is now available in the WebORB Standard Edition
- Added support for MSMQ message selectors (mx.messaging.Consumer.selector)
- Added capability to create new records in the testdrive MXML/AS code generated by WDMF
- Added TimeSpan serialization. TimeSpan instances are serialized as 'long' values. A value represents the period of time expressed in milliseconds.
- Fixed compilation problems in the WDMF generated code for MySQL databases
- Fixed compilation of VB-based WDMF projects with a MySQL database as the data source
- Static classes now show up in the service browser
- Improved WDMF data model validation - auto-correction replaces illegal characters in the class and property names with underscore ('_')
- Added support for the MySQL 'date', 'year' and 'blob' types
- Fixed a class cast exception problem with float data type in SQL Server
5/14/07 Flex and .NET Article published by Adobe DevCenter. Adobe Developer Center published an article by the Midnight Coders founder, Mark Piller. The article provides an in-depth overview of Flex and .NET integration using Flex's RemoteObject API/MXML.
5/08/07 WebORB for .NET 3.1.0.2 is released. 3.1.0.2 delivers a combination of important bug fixes and new features, including:
- Added support for VB.NET in the WDMF (WebORB Data Management for Flex) code generator. All the generated code for the server-side can now be in C# or VB.NET
- Standalone WebORB Enterprise Edition process can now operate as a Windows Service. Use -install, -uninstall, -start and -stop arguments with weborbee.exe
- System.Data.DataSet is serialized as a collection of table name to DataTable mappings. A DataTable is serialized as an array of complex types, where each complex type represents a row of data.
- Configuration file containing database and data model information used by WebORB Data Management for Flex has been renamed to wdm.config. This change requires re-adding of database and data model information in the console.
- Fixed bugs:
- Flex consumers connection termination is now properly handled
- RTMP connection termination no longer causes thread misallocation.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 table names are properly prefixed with schema name. Previously schema name was omitted in the generated SQL queries.
- Double.NaN type adaptation. Values of NaN can now be adapted to any Nullable numeric type
- ActionScript String to Guid type adaptation now works as expected
5/01/07 WebORB for .NET 3.1.0.1 is released. 3.1.0.1 is a maintenance release delivering some new features and bug fixes in WebORB Data Management for Flex:
The release includes:
- Added 'Cardinality' column in the Table/Column properties in Code Generator
- Added support for stored procedures
- Added support for ActiveRecords.XXX.findFirst and findLast methods
- Console's Data Management tab immediately stores changes in the column mappings
- Added data type mapping for the "float" data type
4/23/07 WebORB for .NET 3.1 is released. The new release is the first one to deliver brand new WebORB Data Management for Flex - a highly dynamic system designed to simplify data-driven application development using Flex and .NET.
The release includes:
- WebORB Data Management for Flex implementation
- Microsoft Vista integration
- New and improved data messaging and streaming
3/5/07 Midnight Coders at 360Flex. We are a proud co-sponsor of the 360Flex conference in San Jose. Midnight Coders' own Mark Piller and Harris Reynolds to present on the subjects of 'data-driven application development with Flex' and 'Flex and .NET integration'.
/8/07 SeaFlex Presentation. Midnight Coders CEO presents to the Seattle Flex User Group. The discussion involves the subject of Flex and .NET integration, data management and developer productivity.
1/11/07 SilvaFUG Presentation. Midnight Coders CEO presents to the members of Silicon Valley Flex User Group on the subject of Flex and .NET integration.
1/2/07 The new WebORB for .NET product page is available. The new structure and format provide a simple way to find product information, development and evaluation resources.