Polyglot programming - combining functional, dynamic and imperative la(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 10 months, 5 days ago

A blog post from Mindscape about the development experience of creating the Web Workbench product for Sass, Less and CoffeeScript in Visual Studio 2010. Like most .NET projects, it contains a fair chunk of C#. But quite a bit of the core is written in F#, and it also invokes a large amount of external Ruby and JavaScript code. While using all these languages definitely made it far easier to develop the product, it did also throw up a few challenges and surprises. This post looks at those challenges and surprises. read more...

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Sass, Less and CoffeeScript for Visual Studio 2010(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 10 months, 8 days ago

Mindscape have released a 100% free Visual Studio extension that adds support for Sass, Less and CoffeeScript. Making this extension even more powerful is that it includes syntax highlighting, output generation, intellisense, go to definition and much more! Be up and running in with these technologies in Visual Studio in no time! read more...

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

submitted by traskjd(3229) 10 months, 27 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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5 features you didn't know existed in the LightSpeed ORM Designer(www.mindscapehq.com)

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

The LightSpeed Designer is the most powerful domain modelling surface for Visual Studio but that sometimes means users don't uncover some of the goodies baked into it. This post takes a look at 5 often overlooked features of the designer that can make .NET development easier and more enjoyable. read more...

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Efficient entity data loading with named aggregates(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 4 months ago

Controlling when and how much data is loaded is something developers have to keep in mind when building any modern data driven application. This blog post looks at an advanced feature in LightSpeed that helps hand the power back to developers: named aggregates. Dive deep into how you can make your applications blazingly fast! read more...

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Migrating a standard ASP.NET Website to N2CMS on EC2(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 5 months ago

This post reviews a recent site migration that Mindscape undertook - moving from a standard ASP.NET solution to the great N2CMS open source CMS using ASP.NET MVC. It looks at the challenges and solutions that were found as part of the migration to make it smooth and improve site performance for website visitors. read more...

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Charts, books and free controls - Mindscape Silverlight Elements 2.0(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 6 months ago

Mindscape have upgraded Silverlight Elements with a stunning charting library for line of business applications. A unique feature of the charting library is its special support for huge data sets. The suite contains over 30 controls including three new controls that have been released free. Plus, for a limited time, all new customers get a free copy of "Silverlight 4.0 Unleashed"! 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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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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NHibernate Designer updated with refactoring support(www.mindscape.co.nz)

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

Mindscape have released a new version of the NHibernate Designer that was released earlier this week. Now including new refactorings, arrange support and improved keyboard user experience as requested by users of the NHibernate Designer. 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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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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LightSpeed + LINQPad - perfect partners(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 2 years, 2 months ago

Today Mindscape released a LINQPad driver for LightSpeed 3.0. This extends LINQPad and allows developers to run LINQ Queries against LightSpeed models which, in turn, allows querying against SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Amazon's SimpleDB, MySQL, SQLite, VistaDB and DB2! read more...

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