VCP Platform Road Map

This document provides a road map, release schedule, and planned features for the VCP Platform.

Next Versions

v9.0

The next version will be 9.0 and planned to release the stable 9.0 version in November 2024. We will be mostly working on the following topics:

Framework
- Upgrading to .NET 9.0
- Google Cloud Storage BLOB Provider
- Better handling localization resources in a microservice scenario
- SSR support for the Angular UI
- Upgrading 3rd-party dependencies
VCP Suite
- Multiple navigation properties to the same target entity
- Define navigation properties without target string property dependency
- Improvements one-to-many scenarios
- Access to default code generation templates for customized templates
VCP Studio
- Blazor WebApp UI option for the new startup templates
- Execution order (dependency management) for Solution Runner
- Automate more details on new service creation for a microservice solution
- Support multiple concurrent Kubernetes deployment/integration scenarios
- Show the README file when you create a new solution or open an existing solution
- Improve VCP Suite code-generation possibilities for microservice solutions
- Improve the module installation experience
- Auto-install 3rd-party dependencies
- Better handle long log files
- Allow to directly create new solutions with VCP's RC (Release Candidate) versions
- Support Intel processors for Mac computers, support ARM chipset for Windows and support Linux OS
- Improve client proxy generation experience
Application modules
- Account module: Support mixed social/local login scenarios
- UI/UX improvements on existing application modules
New tutorials
- Modular monolith development
- Microservice development

Backlog Items

The Next Versions section above shows the main focus of the planned versions. However, in each release, we add new features to the VCP platform.

Framework

The VCP framework is open source and free for everyone. You can see its public backlog. Here, are some of the important features you can expect from next versions:

#236 / Resource based authorization system
#2882 / Providing a gRPC integration infrastructure (while it is already possible to create or consume gRPC endpoints for your application, we plan to create endpoints for the standard application modules)
#57 / Built-in CQRS infrastructure
#58 / Content localization system (multilingual entities)
#4223 / WebHook system
#162 / Azure ElasticDB Integration for multitenancy
#2296 / Feature toggling infrastructure
#15932 / Introduce VCP Diagnostics Module
#16744 / State Management API
#17815 / Operation Rate Limiting

Application Modules / UI Themes

VCP Platform provides many (free and commercial) pre-built application modules and modern UI themes. In every release, many enhancements and bugfixes are already done on the existing modules. In addition, here some of the planned features for next versions:

FermionX theme: New layouts, styles and components
CMS Kit module: Meta information for SEO, media gallery, RSS feed, content versioning, social media streams
Identity module: Idle session warning
Payment module: Invoice system
New module: User notification
New module: Dynamic dashboard
New module: User guiding
New module: Keycloak integration

VCP Studio

VCP Studio is a cross-platform desktop application for VCP and .NET developers to simplify and automate daily tasks of developers. It has a community (free) edition as well as commercial editions. It is released and versioned independently from the VCP platform and frequently released.

Here, are some of the important planned features for next VCP Studio versions:

Theme builder for the FermionX theme
Analyze user solutions to explore entities, domain services, application services, pages and other fundamental objects.
Add status bar to the built-in browser to easily see errors
Swagger authentication support for the built-in browser
Show related requests/events (traces) together in the solution runner panel
Integrate common tool dashboards into VCP Studio (such a Garana, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kibana, etc)
Built-in command terminal
Automate all steps of new service creation for microservice solutions
Container application type support for Solution Runner (to individually control docker dependencies)
More options while creating new solutions
Downloading samples in VCP studio
Built-in VCP documentation experience
Auto-execute terminal commands in markdown files
Compare changed on the startup templates when a new VCP version is published
Remove unused projects while downloading source code of an existing module
Testing/hosting applications for module templates
Easily explore all module and package dependencies of a large solution
Built-in deployment options
Rapid application development features
VCP support integration

VCP Suite

VCP Suite is a GUI application that is mainly used to generate CRUD style pages in your application. You define your entity and it can generate all the code from the database layer to the UI layer. The generated code is clean and a perfect starting point to implement your custom requirements on top of it.

Here, are some of the important planned features for next VCP Suite versions:

Handle image properties for entities
Allow to define extra properties for DTOs those are not a part of the entity
Allow to create pages instead of modals for CRUD page generation
View-only (detail view) modal/page for an entity
Export child/detail entity records as a part of export operation for a main (master) entity
Allow to accept attachments (files) for an entity
Allow to add custom entity actions for an entity
Allow to inherit from an existing entity class
Custom form layouts on CRUD page generation

Feature Requests

Vote for your favorite feature on the related GitHub issues (and write your thoughts). You can create an issue on the GitHub repository for your feature requests, but first search in the existing issues please. You can also contact info@vcp.vertocore.com for your feature requests and other suggestions.