Features

MOSSQUITO FEATURE	Express Edition	Professional Edition
Web site data model support
A web site data model containing assets like site columns, lists, and content types is at the heart of each SharePoint web site. Mossquito offers you a new level of experience in designing and re-using web site data models. Now you can work in an easy-to-use GUI and achieve common tasks much faster and with confidence. Work with web site data models: site columns, content types, lists, fields, views and more
Connect to existing SharePoint web sites and import their data models to Mossquito. Then edit, create, or delete SharePoint objects, and deploy the changes back — or create a new web site. Coming soon: Auto-generate diagrams for the newly imported web site as an option. Import web site data models from existing SharePoint web sites	1
Mossquito provides an intuitive wizard that let's you create both new site collections or sub-web sites in existing site collections. Coming soon: Create and deploy in one step. Create new SharePoint web sites based on your data models
Navigation data model support
Easily create, edit, or reorganize navigations for your web sites. Coming soon: Support for navigation data models of publishing sites. Work with navigation data models: Quick Launch and Top Navigation Bar
Connect to existing SharePoint web sites and import their navigations to Mossquito. Then edit, create, or delete navigation nodes, and deploy the changes back — or use on any other web site. Import navigation data models from existing SharePoint web sites	1
Make sure there are no dead links and that all your lists are accessible from a given navigation. Coming soon: Bind a default web site data model to a navigation data model for easier editing. Validate navigations against web site data models
Mossquito keeps web site and navigation models apart. Thus you are free to combine them — make different navigations and apply them to web sites with a push of a button. Or use a single navigation with multiple slightly different web site data models. Combine navigation and web site data models freely
Code generation
DAO (Data Access Object) classes let you access data in SharePoint lists from C#, Visual Basic, or any other .NET language in an easy and type-safe way. No more untyped and error-prone myItem["Number of pages"]-like code! Generate DAO classes for web site data models
With Mossquito's generated DAO classes you can work with list data using interfaces which correspond to your content types! Write re-usable business logic bound to interfaces instead of specific classes, and run it on data from multiple lists! Use generated interfaces to represent content types
The generated code can be output either in C# or Visual Basic. C# and Visual Basic support
Compare & Merge engine
You can compare either any two web site data models or navigation data models and quickly identify changes. You can even compare live SharePoint web sites without a prior import to Mossquito. Compare and merge any two data models	5
Mossquito lets you choose among several comparison modes that are suited for different situations and let. Beside the symmetric mode, the more specialized modes become handy especially when want to control the way of merging or deployment. Choose among several comparison modes
Merge changes from one data model to another, or just synchronize both. Merge changes between data models
Deployment engine
Based on our Compare & Merge engine, the Deployment engine lets you deploy the changes you've made in Mossquito to live SharePoint web sites. Deploy changes to existing SharePoint web sites	1
Diagramming
Leverage diagrams to organize SharePoint objects and visualize the relationships among them. Create diagrams showing custom subsets of SharePoint objects	2
Automatically generate diagrams showing list relationships denoted by lookup fields. View list relationships	2
Automatically generate diagrams showing content type inheritance. View content type hierarchies	2
Drag & drop lists and content types to the same diagram and visualize immediate relations among them, including content type usage in particular lists. View content type usage in lists	2
Do all your editing and object creation right on a diagram. Use a point & click technique to create relationships between lists (i.e. create new lookup fields), or use content types in lists. Drag & drop site columns to add them to lists or content types. Edit SharePoint web site data models and draw relationships between objects
SharePoint integration
Mossquito is tested to work with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 — whether the original release, Service Pack 1, or Service Pack 2. Works with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Mossquito is tested to work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 — whether the original release, Service Pack 1, or Service Pack 2. Works with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Remote SharePoint access
Mossquito works with the native .NET SharePoint object model API, avoiding the rather restrictive web services API. While this brings tremendous advantages to developers, to ensure remote connectivity to a SharePoint farm a Mossquito Server component needs to be installed on one of a farm's servers. Mossquito client can keep track of multiple SharePoint farms. Just provide the host name of the machine running Mossquito Server and you have a working connection to a SharePoint farm! Connect to remote SharePoint farms via Mossquito Server	1
With Mossquito it's up to you whether you want to work from your desktop OS, or right on a Windows Server 2003 box along a SharePoint installation. Mossquito can run on the following desktop operating systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Free to work from a server as well as a desktop Windows box
You don't need to have a permanent online connection to your SharePoint farm. Most of the work can be done off-line. However, when deployment time comes, SharePoint connectivity is essential. Work off-line
Security
Mossquito Server allows you to define access policies which restrict . Define access policies for your farm's assets
Project management
Mossquito provides you with a familiar project-based development environment, enabling you to keep track of many projects and organize your SharePoint development assets in your way. Coming soon: User experience improvements like drag & drop project organization. Get organized with projects in a familiar VS-like way
Mossquito keeps all data in XML files with a simple and clean structure. Coming soon: Moreover, you can select among storing your data model in a single large XML file, in a set of smaller XML files, or even in a zipped archive." Keep all data on disk in XML files	4
Thanks to XML representation of all data which are carefully kept off-SharePoint, it's easy to version them in any versioning system like Microsoft TFS or Subversion. Version your data using any versioning tool	4
Handful tools
We provide a command-line version of Mossquito which lets you automate many tasks: Import web site data models Import navigation data models Compare and merge data models Deploy changes to existing SharePoint web sites Create new site collections and sub-web sites Generate DAO classes Console for scripting from the command-line
Full-text search for SharePoint objects within your data model. Search for SharePoint objects across your project	5

 — not supported;  — partially supported, see notes below;  — fully supported;

1. There's only one remote connection permitted in Mossquito 2009 Express Edition. Further restrictions apply to the ability to change the connection settings. There are no limits in Professional Edition.
2. Mossquito 2009 Express Edition supports comparing a data model to a live web site only, while Professional Editions allows any combination of data models or live web sites to be compared.
3. Mossquito 2009 Express Edition enables you to create Content Type Diagrams and List Diagrams with the following limitations: diagrams are read-only and may contain no more than 5 custom content types or lists. There are no limits in Professional Edition.
4. Only single-XML storage is available in Mossquito 2009 Express Edition, while Professional Editions allows for storing data models into multiple hierarchically organized XML files in a per-artifact manner for better version control support.
5. Full-text search is limited to the current (selected) data model in Mossquito 2009 Express Edition, while Professional Edition supports searching across all data models in the project.

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