F# 3.0 type providers – as if by magic…(www.mindscapehq.com)

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This post dives into one of the very cool new features that has emerged in the first drop of F# 3.0 that shipped with Visual Studio 2011 preview 1. Type providers in F# eliminate tedious boilerplate code by enabling users to create whole classes in a single line of code. read more...

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

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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)

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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) 7 months, 13 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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Creating custom node styles for WPF Diagrams(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 8 months, 12 days ago

This article discusses how developer can use the Mindscape WPF Diagrams product to create an custom diagram with custom node types. Customizing node types can mean creating normal diagram nodes, but it could be that developers want to build any type of composed surface - a Visual Studio style window designer, visual DSL tools, and anything else you can imagine. This article gets users started on the road to customization. read more...

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Mindscape releases WPF Diagrams 2.0(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 9 months, 7 days ago

Mindscape WPF Diagrams 2.0 has been released and adds to the existing product by adding 80+ new shapes out of the box, absolute positioned diagrams, improved toolbox and much more. But it's not all about features - it's about providing a way for developers to easily create 'WOW' experiences for their end users and WPF Diagrams does just that. read more...

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Dynamic repositories with LightSpeed - taking dynamic up a level(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 9 months, 16 days ago

Ready to think outside the box with the C# dynamic keyword? This post looks at taking the c# dynamic keyword and seeing how much boiler plate code we can get rid of. You'll learn how to take the Repository pattern where developers write a lot of GetFooByName, GetBarByEmailAddress type methods and how to get rid of them - gone, history, finished! Then there's Named Parameters - this post starts looking at how to use them for querying. By the end of this post you'll have a whole new way of looking at things with dyanmic and named parameters! read more...

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Crazy delicious: defining LightSpeed entities at runtime(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 9 months, 24 days ago

This post looks at creating entities definitions at runtime in your applications: "Ever since JD unleashed LightSpeed.MetaData on an unsuspecting world, we’ve been inundated by people asking about the possibility of declaring entities at run-time, for example to reflect a database schema that can be modified or extended by users, or to allow common batch actions to be applied to different databases without having to build explicit models for every database." read more...

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Mindscape giving away $300k of WP7 control licenses(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 10 months, 30 days ago

To celebrate the launch of their WP7 control suite Mindscape are giving away $300k worth of licenses to developers for free. Included in the suite is 20 controls to make WP7 development easier: A high performance and diverse charting library, looping list boxes, color selectors, date & time pickers, gauge and a gesture library are all included. Be quick! read more...

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Mindscape releases WP7 control suite(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 11 months, 9 days ago

Mindscape have released an extensive control suite for Windows Phone 7 developers. Included is a high performance charting suite of 14 chart types along with standard controls such as time pickers, date pickers, color pickers and much more. This post announces the release and provides a giveaway to get a free license. read more...

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Intro to F#: First-class functions in F#, part 0(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 11 months, 20 days ago

Have you started looking at F# yet now that it ships with Visual Studio 2010? This post takes a look at the fundamental differences between functions in F# and how delegates work in C#/VB. By the end of this post you'll see why functions are first class in F# and are not in C#/VB and be on your way to better understanding F#. read more...

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Mindscape releases Free WPF Controls(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 11 months, 27 days ago

Mindscape have released a set of WPF controls that are completely free for developers to work with: WPF Coverflow control for beautiful data presentation. WPF Autocomplete Textbox for slick user interaction and the WPF Prompt Decorator to really make user interaction crystal clear. These controls can be distributed royalty free and fully supported by Mindscape. read more...

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WPF Elements 4 released by Mindscape(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year ago

WPF Elements 4 has been released - 35+ WPF controls including a range of great new charting components. Get everything in one collection: Charting, line of business controls, themes - everything to make your WPF applications great. Support for many different chart types is now included along with a strong focus on performance - charts with millions of data points can be handled without breaking a sweat. read more...

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Mindscape releases Free Silverlight controls(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year ago

Mindscape has released three Silverlight controls free of charge for developers to work with! The Book control which allows for beautifully animated page turning, virtualized pages, pagination and custom content. Their Coveflow control for representing visual data in an elegant manner for end users and their Expander control for making it easier to free up valuable UI space by collapsing elements away. This post digs into the controls more and gives a link to download them now. read more...

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5 features you didn't know existed in the LightSpeed ORM Designer(www.mindscapehq.com)

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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 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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