After reading a blog post today on the LOB in WPF topic and remembering the countless ones I read before I thought it might be the right time to present the world what I would like to call "the first framework for db-centric line-of-business applications built for WPF": Trivadis Application Builder (TAB). The name already implies that there is more than just a framework.

While there are now powertoys out to create business WPF forms, we are already a step ahead of those. The business forms (master/detail, detail, etc.) in a TAB applications are either created dynamically at runtime without user interaction or XAML code is generated by a wizard at design time (which creates exactly the same XAML as the runtime generator does).

At lot of business application functionality like Lookups, Catalogs, Filters, Sorting, Translation Services, Multi-Layer validation, etc. is available in our framework which implements all of this in a M-V-VM pattern way and tries to force the developer to think in M-V-VM ways.

Take this post as a teaser and come back for the next post in this new TAB series.

BTW: Version 1.0 is out in the wild and is already used in real-life customer projects. For more information concering projects with TAB please go to http://www.trivadis.com