LightSpeed 4.0 .NET ORM released(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 10 months, 26 days ago

The LightSpeed 4.0 ORM has been released and features distributed application support so you can work transparently with entities across a network, and Web enhancements that simplify development and encapsulate best practices in ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC. A huge new user guide and entirely new samples, packed with guidance not just on how to use LightSpeed but also on the best way to work with it in different environments. There is also a new metadata API, auditing capabilities and much much more. read more...

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Dynamic repositories with LightSpeed - taking dynamic up a level(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year ago

Ready to think outside the box with the C# dynamic keyword? This post looks at taking the c# dynamic keyword and seeing how much boiler plate code we can get rid of. You'll learn how to take the Repository pattern where developers write a lot of GetFooByName, GetBarByEmailAddress type methods and how to get rid of them - gone, history, finished! Then there's Named Parameters - this post starts looking at how to use them for querying. By the end of this post you'll have a whole new way of looking at things with dyanmic and named parameters! read more...

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Mindscape releases WP7 control suite(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 2 months ago

Mindscape have released an extensive control suite for Windows Phone 7 developers. Included is a high performance charting suite of 14 chart types along with standard controls such as time pickers, date pickers, color pickers and much more. This post announces the release and provides a giveaway to get a free license. read more...

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Mindscape releases Free Silverlight controls(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 3 months ago

Mindscape has released three Silverlight controls free of charge for developers to work with! The Book control which allows for beautifully animated page turning, virtualized pages, pagination and custom content. Their Coveflow control for representing visual data in an elegant manner for end users and their Expander control for making it easier to free up valuable UI space by collapsing elements away. This post digs into the controls more and gives a link to download them now. read more...

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Json.NET 4.0 Release 1 – .NET 4 and Windows Phone support(james.newtonking.com)

submitted by JamesNK(3020) 1 year, 4 months ago

By popular demand: Json.NET 4.0! This is the first Json.NET release to target .NET 4 and integrates the many new features added in the latest version of .NET read more...

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F# and first-class functions, part 4: doing heavy lifting(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 7 months ago

The 4th and final part in the first-class functions series, this post brings it all together and starts doing some serious work in F#! See how F# has made it easy for to use higher-order functions to solve a real world problem more concisely and more simply than in C# or Visual Basic. read more...

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Intro to F# part 2: First-class function, point-free style(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 7 months ago

In the previous instalment, we saw that F# provided composition operators to allow you to concisely build up anonymous functions without the overhead of lambda syntax. Occasionally, however, a function will be so amazingly useful that you actually want to give it a name so you can use it from more than one place. Part 2 discusses how to achieve this. read more...

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Regular expressions with MSBuild. Reading version numbers...(instantiate.co.nz)

submitted by lukus7(135) 1 year, 7 months ago

I show how I recently used the MSBuild community tasks and a regular expression to read version numbers out of the AssemblyInfo.cs file into MSBuild properties. read more...

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Mindscape releases LightSpeed 3.11 ORM(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 9 months ago

LightSpeed 3.11 brings significant new features - SQL CE 4.0 support, 2500% faster SimpleDB batched inserts, querying enhancements, mapping improvements and much more. This post covers the highlight features that are part of 3.11. read more...

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Mindscape releases Visual Tools for SharePoint 2010(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 9 months ago

SharePoint 2010 includes support for querying SharePoint lists via LINQ - a super nice way of getting data out of SharePoint for developers. Unfortunately, building the LINQ classes and data context wasn't as easy as it could be. Visual Tools for SharePoint 2010 is a Visual Studio 2010 integrated design surface for creating SharePoint models quickly and easily. read more...

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Mindscape releases NHibernate Designer for VS2010(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 9 months ago

Mindscape, developers of the LightSpeed ORM have released a visual designer for NHibernate users. Leveraging their years of developing a Visual Studio integrated model designer for LightSpeed, the NHibernate Designer means developers can quickly and easily start working with their NHibernate solutions. Supports full database synchronization, model first and data base first development models. read more...

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Mindscape releases version 3 of WPF control suite(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 9 months ago

WPF Elements 3.0 has been released and is the amalgamation of three products - WPF Elements 2, WPF Property Grid and 5 beautiful WPF Themes. New controls such as a scheduler, rich text toolbar, sliders, and many more have been included along with many new samples for developers to learn from. Grab WPF Elements 3.0 and build something awesome today! read more...

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Mindscape's ORM, LightSpeed 3.1 has been released(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 2 years ago

LightSpeed 3.1 has been released and includes VS2010 designer support along with a slew of many new capabilities - the ability to link models together across several model design files (no more huge messy models, logically group them across files), support for saved designer views, core support for Class table inheritance, T4 code generation support, and a whole heap more to help developers deliver faster. read more...

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Writing maintainable code - encapsulate what varies(instantiate.co.nz)

submitted by lukus7(135) 2 years ago

How to use the object oriented software design principle "encapsulate what varies" to write maintainable, adaptable software. read more...

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Mindscape Silverlight Elements 1.1 released(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 2 years ago

Mindscape have released Silverlight Elements 1.1 - bringing the control suite up to 14 Silverlight controls that work with both Silverlight 3 and 4. Sliders, split buttons, outlook styled controls, updated themes, time pickers, range selectors and more join the existing line up of a Silverlight HTML Editor, Scheduler, Color pickers, coverflow control and more. read more...

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Mindscape releases VS2010 designer for LINQ to SharePoint 2010(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by mindscape(28) 2 years, 1 month ago

SharePoint 2010 was released today and one great new feature is LINQ to SharePoint. Unfortunately, working with LINQ to SharePoint involves command line tools and XML configuration. Mindscape Visual Tools for SharePoint provides a VS2010 integrated designer to drag and drop and manage the objects you wish to query. This post talks about the features and offers the first 50 sign ups a FREE copy of the product. read more...

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