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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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...

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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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11 books for a .NET Summer reading list(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by javery(5523) 2 years, 9 months ago

A great list of books to read this summer (its almost over though so get to it) read more...

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Free Chapter of Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Published(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by keyvan(4086) 3 years ago

Simone Chiaretta announces the availability of chapter 9 of Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book about Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications and shares some good news about the release date of the book. read more...

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How to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial perf: don’t run in debug mode(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 3 years, 1 month ago

There has a been a lot of talking on a possible “big design flaw” in ASP.NET MVC: partial view path resolution was not cached. After a bit of testing I found out that caching kicks in only in release mode. So probably all the other tests were run in debug mode. read more...

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Business for geeks: Naming your software company(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 3 years, 2 months ago

A second post in the series about starting a software development tools company covering the process undertaken in picking the name of the company. Covers points to consider when picking a name for your own software brand. This isn't strictly code but might be interesting for entrepreneurial .net geeks out there. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC for RoR developers: do as locals do(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 3 years, 2 months ago

A few days ago, Simon Tokumine, a Ruby On Rails developer from UK who had to build a web app using ASP.NET MVC wrote a nice post that makes a comparison between RoR and ASP.NET MVC. In this post I’m going to give him and to other RoR developers that want (or are forced to) evaluate and eventually use ASP.NET MVC in a project the tips that they need to do as locals do read more...

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Starting out - The story of starting a software tools company(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 3 years, 2 months ago

Not strictly about coding, this post talks about starting a business that builds tools for software developers (in this case, tools for developers on the Microsoft stack). Covers some of the lessons learned and experiences in the first few months. read more...

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Git/Github survival guide(flanders.co.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 3 years, 2 months ago

Now that all the cool guys are moving to Git/GitHub, Ivan posts a survival guide, with all the most useful commands of git and how to get started with github/git read more...

2 comments |category: Open Source |Views: 322

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Pimp your command-line for git(flanders.co.nz)

submitted by casualjim(520) 3 years, 2 months ago

Show your git branch in both bash and powershell read more...

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Mindscape releases open source ASP.NET MVC extensions(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 3 years, 2 months ago

Mindscape have released an open source library with a collection of helpful extensions to make developing solutions with the ASP.NET MVC framework easier. Attention has been paid to ensuring it's easy to deliver solutions based on LightSpeed but there is also significant samples and code for developers working on MVC solutions with other domain modeling tools. Patches and suggestions are welcome. read more...

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A lap around MIX09 keynote announcements(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 3 years, 2 months ago

Simone collects all the big announcements from MIX09 and provides links to get deeper into the new stuff read more...

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IronRuby MVC progress(flanders.co.nz)

submitted by casualjim(520) 3 years, 2 months ago

A progress update on the implementation for Ironruby and asp.net mvc read more...

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Single table and concrete table inheritance with LightSpeed ORM(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 3 years, 2 months ago

One of the benefits of working with an O/R Mapper is the ability to use inheritance and have your objects still persist to the database. In this post, Mindscape explains the difference between two types of relational inheritance - Single Table and Concrete Table. The post also demonstrates how to create these models using the LightSpeed O/R Mapper. read more...

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Extending Ninject to inject dependencies into Action Filters (codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 3 years, 3 months ago

In this last post of the series Simone shows the changes he did to Ninject to make it transparent for the developer to inject dependencies into ASP.NET Action Filters. And he also release the small integration library as opensource read more...

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