Sedna Again - Form Design

Forgive if you have already know this, but there is more and more information coming out of Vancouver about Sedna.

If you log-in to eservice.pivotal.com or epartner.pivotal.com and select Product Downloads \ Upgrade Kits and search for Sedna, there are currently 4 download-able zip files containing one or more webcasts showing how to do things within Sedna.

One of them is Installation and administration, which I have already discussed.

The Form Design one got me quite excited. Seeing someone create a Smart Client form from scratch and add functionality to it (all be it basic stuff) was quite exciting.

I love the way you can drag information from Parent tables (they demo showing the email address of a Contact associated with a Support Incident) without creating a field or disconnected field as in RC 5.X.

The integration of .NET form design with Pivotal functionality seems rather good, and easy, allowing simple tasks to be done quite easily. You also seem to be able to get at more properties, such as background and foreground colours, without resorting to using the DOM explorer.

The tab sequence definition is also straight forward, as well as creating forms in multiple languages. Not that I see that often in my current role, but good to know it is there.

Above all, I love the freedom a customiser will have to make the forms easy to
use by the end users.

Maybe all of this is taken for granted to current .NET bespoke application developers, but for someone who has been restricted to the current Pivotal restrictions for so long, I am getting excited. Roll on February 28th.