Version 0.9.5 of the open source project fmDotNet was released today at www.fmDotNet.org.

fmDotNet is an open source project that allows .NET developers to easily connect to FileMaker Server Advanced.

According to Wim Decorte, creator of fmDotNet: "In the 22 months fmDotNet has been up it has racked up over 2600 downloads, or about 4 downloads each day and that is very remarkable for a niche tool targeted at the .NET developer who wants to work with FileMaker data without having to learn anything about FileMaker. fmDotNet has also sparked lively communications with FileMaker and .NET developers resulting in some of the excellent changes made to this version."

So what is new in version 0.9.5:

- fully compatible with FileMaker Server Advanced 9

- additional parameters for calling fmDotNet

* turn DTD validation on or off (kudos to Kenyon Porter for his research on this)

* specify how long to wait for FileMaker Server's response

- support for non-US date and timestamp formats (Kudos to Koen Van Hulle and John Blakeley)

- support for layout, field and value lists names that include non-standard characters (such as "&", ...)

fmDotNet and its source code is available from www.fmdotnet.org, together with a VB.NET and C# demo application.

Wim Decorte is the author of fmDotNet and heads up the custom FileMaker development team at New Millennium (www.nmci.com), a Boulder-based FBA Platinum member.

Cheers for putting together an excellent project Wim!