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Mindscape releases NHibernate Designer for VS2010

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:00:52 GMT

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.

This Week in Fail

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:18:17 GMT

Nailed it.

dashCommerce 3.2 Final Released

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:12:03 GMT

Latest version of dashCommerce released.

dashCommerce: State of the Union Address 2009

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:18:18 GMT

dashCommerce 2009 achievements.

Using complex types to make calling services less... complex

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:46:03 GMT

A detailed examination of how jQuery can call ASP.NET AJAX web services (or page methods) with complex types as parameters, to simplify the process of serializing and sending several fields of data at a time.

.NET Serialization (BinaryFormater, SoapFormatter and XmlSerializer)

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:18:16 GMT

Object serialization is the process of converting an object to a format that is suitable for persistence (database, file, etc) or transportation (remoting, Web Services, MSMQ, etc). This post shows how to serialize objects (whatever they are alone or within a generic or non generic collection) by using the three types of serializers available on .NET Framework 2.0 and above. Includes application example with full source code, and performance tests.

The Beauty of Fluent NHibernate Automapping

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:10:42 GMT

Chris Cyvas explores the use of Fluent NHibernate Automapping in an effort to 1.) get up to speed with NHibernate and 2.) the fastest way to get started working with NHibernate. In the process, some additional benefits to the use of Fluent NHibernate are revealed.

Getting Mono and Visual Studio to play nice together :: Part 2

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:01:02 GMT

Chris Cyvas continues his profiles of getting Mono and Visual Studio to play nice together. In a previous post, Chris documented how to get some Mono Project Templates to work with Visual Studio. In this post, Chris creates some Mono Item Templates for use with your Mono Project Templates.

WPF Flow Diagrams 1.0 Released

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:33:53 GMT

Mindscape have released WPF Flow Diagrams - easily create rich interactive flow diagrams in your WPF solutions with this powerful component. Commercial, but with a 14 day trial, it's useful to explore if you need this capability in your applications.

Awful Command Line Parsing API in .NET 4.0

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:31:02 GMT

Miguel de Icaza about System.Core's new System.Shell.CommandLine

Nathaniel Talbott - How I Got Started In Programming

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:50:01 GMT

Nathaniel Tablott, author of the widely used Test::Unit Ruby testing framework, tells how he got started in programming.

Getting Mono and Visual Studio to play nice together

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:16:12 GMT

The goal was to get some Mono project templates working with Mono assemblies and the Mono compiler in Visual Studio. The trick was to do it in a way that would be able to survive upgrades of Mono installations.

Scott Gowell - How I Got Started in Programming

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:38:36 GMT

Scott Gowell, a developer at TechSmith corporation, tells how he got started in programming.

A Failure in Microsofts Open Source Strategy

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:16:13 GMT

If they want their development tools to be the tools to develop with and they want Windows to be the platform to deploy solutions on (open source and otherwise), then they need to consider, very carefully, how they expect to achieve that. You've got to do more than release open source software . . .

Domain Driven Design, Business Objects, Datasets and NHibernate

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:16:02 GMT

Speed test comparisons between NHibernate and custom BOs and Visual Studio TableAdapters and Datasets

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.

A Failure in Microsoft's Open Source Strategy

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:11:59 GMT

The Development Stack for Mono

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:00:04 GMT

In my planning to get ready for Mono development, I've been looking at different ways to get up and running. I'll be putting together a screen cast of this work, all distilled down so hopefully you will be able to ...

Darryl Hogan - How I Got Started In Programming

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:17:01 GMT

Rick Schummer, FoxPro developer and organizer of Southwest Fox Conference, sits down with Corey and tells his story of how he got started in programming.

Develop .NET on MacOS X

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:46:02 GMT

A small information about .NET Development under Mac OS X with Mono

Sending Domain Objects Across the Wire

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:31:03 GMT

or Using NHibernate and WCF

An Impressive Interview

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:41:35 GMT

An impressive interview with Miguel de Icaza

Changes coming to dashCommerce

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:40:44 GMT

We are also going to focus on making Mono a first class, supported platform for dashCommerce. What does that mean? It means dashCommerce will be cross-platform: Windows, Linux, OS X, and BSD. Why? . . .

Why aren't I an MVP?

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:16:03 GMT

There's a problem with the MVP program I'd like to talk about. The fact that I'm no longer an MVP (haven't been for over a year now) isn't the problem, merely a symptom. My problem is that I don't know why I'm not an MVP, and by extension I don't know why others are. The process of becoming and remaining an MVP is completely opaque. Plainly, the MVP program lacks transparency.

LightSpeed 2.2 Released

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:31:11 GMT

LightSpeed 2.2 O/R Mapper has been released with support for SimpleDB, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, stored procedures support and much more. This post covers many of the new features, all of which are included in the free edition.