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

submitted by traskjd(3229) 10 months, 5 days ago

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)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 10 months, 8 days ago

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) 10 months, 27 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) 11 months, 25 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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Dynamic repositories with LightSpeed - taking dynamic up a level(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 1 month 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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Mindscape giving away $300k of WP7 control licenses(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 2 months 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) 1 year, 2 months 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) 1 year, 3 months 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) 1 year, 3 months 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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Mindscape releases Free Silverlight controls(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 3 months 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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Efficient entity data loading with named aggregates(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 4 months 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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Mindscape releases LightSpeed 4 beta(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 4 months ago

Mindscape has release LightSpeed 4 beta for customers to start testing with. The big improvements in LightSpeed 4 focus on improving distributed solutions and allowing LightSpeed to make working with large scale distributed solutions easier. Along with the core distributed entities improvements, support for RIA Services, DTO improvements and many other new features will be making their way out to customers as part of the nightly builds for LightSpeed 4 Beta over the coming weeks. read more...

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Mindscape's free developer book promotion is now on(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 6 months ago

Mindscape are offering free books with purchases until the 23rd of November - primarily UX and Silverlight books to celebrate the release of their Silverlight Elements 2.0 control suite. read more...

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Silverlight charts from Mindscape: A look at the performance(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 6 months ago

With the new charting capabilities with Mindscape Silverlight Elements, line charts and area charts could easily handle more than a million data points. For those who are interested, this blog post dives deeper into the implementation details that allow for this level of performance. Overall it is very simple and works by only needing to manage a few hundred data points at a time. Click through to read more. read more...

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Charts, books and free controls - Mindscape Silverlight Elements 2.0(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 6 months ago

Mindscape have upgraded Silverlight Elements with a stunning charting library for line of business applications. A unique feature of the charting library is its special support for huge data sets. The suite contains over 30 controls including three new controls that have been released free. Plus, for a limited time, all new customers get a free copy of "Silverlight 4.0 Unleashed"! read more...

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Creating sexy pie and doughnut charts with Silverlight(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by traskjd(3229) 1 year, 6 months ago

This post looks at how developers can create some stunningly attractive pie and doughnut charts for Silverlight. It digs in deep to show what code and mark-up is required to express data in a rich and interactive manner for end users. These are just some of the charting options coming in Mindscape Silverlight Elements. read more...

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