Tripous: an open source desktop database application framework in C#.

Tripous is an open source desktop database (data entry) application framework written in C# that uses Windows Forms as the Presentation Layer. Tripous is a handy tool in creating traditional client-server applications.

To use Tripous you need .Net 3.5 with Service Pack 1 and Visual Studio 2008.

Here is the project page at sourceforge. 

Tripous is an ancient Greek word meaning a three-legged stand. Tripod is a synonym. Delphic Pythia were sitting on a tripous when she was making her oracles. Talking to a database server  is similar to talking to an oracle. You issue a query but you have no idea what you are going to get back as an answer. And since the Tripous framework is about data I find Tripous is a suitable name.

In this page you’ll find Tripous binaries, Tripous sources, tutorials and documentation about Tripous, other .Net and C# related tutorials and some other tutorials and material.

What Tripous offers?

• Rapid application development
• Unified data access, that is, database server neutral SQL statements and, the most important, sql parameters
• A powerful and flexible business class, his majesty the Broker, fully declarative or inheritable or both
• Base data entry form classes and its own user interface controls that can be used to accelerate user interface construction
• User access control, easily (really) extensible to cover any type of object
• Automatic logging and exception handling
• Xml serialization (Tripous does heavy use of xml)
• Automatic SQL statement generation
• Unified access to application resources
• Pluggable application options subsystem
• Plugins
• Designable reports (using an external report library of your choise)
• A Tcp server and client that communicate using simple xml commands (poorman’s SOAP), fully pluggable and extensible
• Sqlite integration
• Pda framework with all the goodies of the desktop framework (controls included)
• …and more

Tripous downloads

Tripous tutorials

• Introduction

C# tutorials (.Net 3.5 and MS Visual Studio 2008)

Each tutorial includes a set of demo projects and a companion text in ascii and HTML format.

• C# language (download)
• .Net data access (download)
• Windows Forms Applications (download)
• Threading (download)
• Windows Workflow Foundation (download)
• LINQ (to Objects and to Datasets only) (download)
• CAS (Code Access Security) (download)

Theodoros Bebekis, Thessaloniki, Greece (teo point bebekis at gmail point com)