The Milos Framework from EPS

Question

I'm currently investigating the Milos Framework from EPS Consulting but I have not been able to find much in the way of useful information available on the subject. There is some broad brush stuff on the web site such as this high level architecture diagram and there is a help file containing the API definition but nothing in the middle.

It is written by the same guys that write for CODE magazine (Markus Egger and Claudio Lassala) so I'd expect it to be good as they are both excellent writers but to get access to the code or get a price you have to "call our sales team for a consult". (grrr...)

Does anyone have any experience with or knowledge of this framework?

What I have found so far is that it covers:

• User Interface Components
• Data and Middle Tier Components
• Application Fundamentals (Business Objects?)
• Tools and Processes

Answer 1

From the Milos website: "Milos is a software development platform — a set of components, processes and tools for crafting scalable and extensible enterprise applications using Microsoft .NET technology. We do not call Milos a “framework” - although it includes a complete and powerful tier of framework technical components. It presents both lower- (technical infrastructure) and higher-level (business logic) components; and it includes processes and tools."

Milos encompasses 4 areas:

Data and Middle Tier Components

* Business Entities
* Service Enabled Business Objects
* Data Access Layer

User Interface Components

* Windows
* Web
* Touchscreen
* WPF

Includes some grid controls but these are for WinForms only. Includes some charting controls but these are for WinForms only.

Business Building Blocks

* Credit Card Processing
* Names Management
* Security
* Shopping Cart
* Error Handling & Logging
* Document Management
* EMail
* Invoices / Receipts / Payments / POS
* Blog & RSS
* Application Configuration
* Output Queue

Developer Tools

* Developer Services Code Generation Tools
* Developer Services Data Object Test Harness
* Test Driven Development Tools

There is support for .Net 2003 and 2005 but no mention of 2008.

I also found this reference to the framework on Dot Net Rocks.

From what I can piece together from Markus' blog, the framework is still largely focused on the WinForms and ASP.Net platforms although they have recently introduced components for WPF and Silverlight development. (See this blog posting for some info on one of their Silverlight controls and this blog posting for a reference to a "Simple WPF Control Suite").