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LightSpeed + LINQPad - perfect partners

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:45:04 GMT

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!

Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:15:01 GMT

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

How to create a DropDownList with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:15:00 GMT

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.

11 books for a .NET Summer reading list

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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

Free Chapter of Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Published

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:46:05 GMT

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.

How to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial perf: don't run in debug mode

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:01:01 GMT

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.

Business for geeks: Naming your software company

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:31:03 GMT

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.

ASP.NET MVC for RoR developers: do as locals do

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:16:12 GMT

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

Starting out - The story of starting a software tools company

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:01:10 GMT

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.

Git/Github survival guide

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:16:10 GMT

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

Pimp your command-line for git

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:13:17 GMT

Show your git branch in both bash and powershell

Mindscape releases open source ASP.NET MVC extensions

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:01:03 GMT

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.

A lap around MIX09 keynote announcements

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:31:09 GMT

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

IronRuby MVC progress

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:31:12 GMT

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

Single table and concrete table inheritance with LightSpeed ORM

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:46:02 GMT

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.

Extending Ninject to inject dependencies into Action Filters

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:16:09 GMT

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

Comparing ORMs - LINQ-to-X, LightSpeed, EntitySpaces and OpenAccess

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:16:02 GMT

How do LINQ-to-SQL, LINQ-to-Entities, LightSpeed, EntitySpaces and OpenAccess stand up when compared to each other? This post discusses what to consider when selecting your O/R Mapper and links to a feature matrix comparing the features provided by each of these products.

How to use Ninject to inject dependencies into ASP.NET MVC ActionFilte

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:01:03 GMT

Simone shows us how to use Ninjet to inject dependencies to ASP.NET MVC.

Best of 2008: 5 most popular posts

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta, MVP, has gathered his favorite blog's posts in this post. Don't miss it!

ASP.NET MVC Beta1 in a few weeks and v1 by end of year

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:01:07 GMT

A tweet in the morning, straight from Remix08 UK, where ScottGu is doing a presentation on ASP.NET MVC: ScottGu says feature complete MVC beta "in a few weeks". final v1 by end of year

Some updates on the "Beginning ASP.NET MVC" book

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:31:03 GMT

Finally the book has its cover designed, and it's available for pre-sale on Amazon. Keyvan also discusses the pro and cons of writing a book based on pre-release versions of a technology.

ASP.NET MVC P5 released on Codeplex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:16:12 GMT

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex.

First Thoughts on Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the new Wrox book that he and Keyvan Nayyeri are writing and is entitled Beginning ASP.NET MVC. This book targets beginner ASP.NET MVC developers.

Free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:31:03 GMT

The Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (sexy name we know, but hey, it's self documenting) is a free Tool Window add-in for VS 2008 that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view. It's particularly useful for performing routine file system tasks without the need to "context switch" away from Visual Studio, which can be time-consuming over the course of days and weeks. It is shell-enabled so extensions like TortoiseSVN work too.

IronNails : Rails like development for IronRuby with WPF/Silverlight

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:16:12 GMT

For my book IronRuby I'm working on chapter 4. That chapter is about doing WPF development with IronRuby. I started out with a straight port of Witty to IronRuby. As I was doing that the cogs started turning and I came up with a way to bring the rails style of development to WPF. I decided to investigate that route a little bit further and now I have a small framework that enables you to write WPF applications with the MVC paradigm. I decided to open that code up as open source and host it on github.