Introducing Wijmo, a feature-packed jQueryUI based widget library(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 2 months, 27 days ago

A introduction to Wijmo, a jQuery UI based component library, and the rational behind the decision of adopting it vs other component libraries read more...

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The importance of performance testing in a Windows Phone 7 application(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 1 year, 1 month ago

Simone Chiaretta highlights the importance of performance testing your applications on the Windows Phone 7 platform (where devices are not as powerful as desktops and server), illustrating with an example of an issue which caused him performance problems. read more...

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Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die)(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 1 year, 6 months ago

The Apache Foundation wants to kill Lucene.net. If you use it please chime in and help. This post explains a bit more in detail why this is happening read more...

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Hand picked sessions from PDC2010(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 1 year, 6 months ago

If you are not living under a rock, probably you know that yesterday (October 28th) the PDC2010 started. If you missed the keynote of PCD 2010 here is a brief description of what I found interesting, the links to sessions I consider to be interesting (at least for me) and some considerations about SL vs HTML5. 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...

1 comment |category: Linq |Views: 410

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The dynamic duo: LightSpeed & Azure(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 2 years, 4 months ago

Describes how LightSpeed and the Windows Azure platform work happily together with details on running LightSpeed based web/worker roles with the Azure partial trust policy. read more...

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Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 2 years, 4 months ago

Simone looks at the last year's stats and lists the most popular posts we wrote in 2009. And also writes his overall top 10 read more...

1 comment |category: MVC |Views: 527

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Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC(blog.wekeroad.com)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 2 years, 4 months ago

Rob Conery discusses again why ASP.NET MVC matters now, and how (and why) the concept of productivity changed over the years. read more...

3 comments |category: MVC |Views: 391

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LightSpeed 3.0 released!(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 2 years, 5 months ago

Mindscape have released LightSpeed 3.0 - the third version of their .NET O/R Mapper with Visual Studio Integration. LightSpeed 3.0 includes a new migrations framework baked into the visual designer to save developers writing SQL schema migrations, improved querying and LINQ capabilities, testing enhancements and much more. read more...

6 comments |category: Database |Views: 235

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How to create a DropDownList with ASP.NET MVC(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 2 years, 9 months ago

The DropDownList html helper differs a bit from the standard Html helper methods, and, not surprisingly, the way it works is one of the questions I get asked the most. So in this post Simone dissects this helper method, and shows you how to use it. read more...

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Desktop application design tips when using an O/R Mapper(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 2 years, 9 months ago

Blog post including tips about how to make the development of desktop application easier when using an O/R Mapper read more...

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Custom functions in LINQ made easy with LightSpeed(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 2 years, 9 months ago

Using LINQ to express queries is a great thing for .NET developers however sometimes it gets a bit tight when you want to express a database specific function that has no LINQ equivalent. This post shows how developers can easily create and express custom database functions so that their LINQ queries are executed completely by the database engine. read more...

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Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Finally Available(nayyeri.net)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 2 years, 9 months ago

Kevan announces the availability of the book Beginning ASP.NET MVC by Wrox, and explains in details the contents of the book and the level it is targeting read more...

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LINQ is not LINQ To SQL(codethinked.com)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 2 years, 10 months ago

Justin writes about a frequent misconception about LINQ: LINQ is not just LINQ to SQL, but it's a general purpose query language read more...

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Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 2 years, 11 months ago

Simone posts the results of the survey about ajax adoption among .NET developers. jQuery gained 58% since 2007 and now is almost tied to the MS Ajax stack (Control toolkit and ajax core) read more...

6 comments |category: AJAX |Views: 326

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Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 3 years ago

Take the survey to see how the adoption of Ajax among .NET developers changed since the survey held in 2007 read more...

add a comment |category: AJAX |Views: 235

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