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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The dynamic duo: LightSpeed & Azure(www.mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 2 years, 4 months ago

Describes how LightSpeed and the Windows Azure platform work happily together with details on running LightSpeed based web/worker roles with the Azure partial trust policy. read more...

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LightSpeed 3.0 released!(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 2 years, 5 months ago

Mindscape have released LightSpeed 3.0 - the third version of their .NET O/R Mapper with Visual Studio Integration. LightSpeed 3.0 includes a new migrations framework baked into the visual designer to save developers writing SQL schema migrations, improved querying and LINQ capabilities, testing enhancements and much more. read more...

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Desktop application design tips when using an O/R Mapper(mindscape.co.nz)

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Blog post including tips about how to make the development of desktop application easier when using an O/R Mapper read more...

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Custom functions in LINQ made easy with LightSpeed(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 2 years, 9 months ago

Using LINQ to express queries is a great thing for .NET developers however sometimes it gets a bit tight when you want to express a database specific function that has no LINQ equivalent. This post shows how developers can easily create and express custom database functions so that their LINQ queries are executed completely by the database engine. read more...

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Introducing LINQ to LightSpeed(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 3 years, 11 months ago

LightSpeed 2 incorporates LINQ (Language Integrated Query) support. LINQ to LightSpeed means that if you know LINQ, you can get these benefits without having to learn a new API. You can continue to write LINQ queries as if against LINQ to SQL or another LINQ provider, but you’ll get database independence (effectively LightSpeed gives you LINQ to Oracle, LINQ to MySQL, LINQ to PostgreSQL and LINQ to SQLite as well as LINQ to SQL Server, all in the one box), advanced eager loading functionality (avoiding the so-called “n+1” problem which affects some LINQ implementations) and of course the blazingly fast LightSpeed query engine. read more...

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Internet Explorer 8 now passing Acid2(turtle.net.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 4 years, 5 months ago

The IE8 team just announced some new news about IE8 - they just passed a major milestone which is to have IE8 render Acid2 when in IE8 standards mode. Includes link to official post and video. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Framework and December CTP of Extensions released(turtle.net.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 4 years, 5 months ago

The ASP.NET MVC Framework is now available as part of the December CTP for the ASP.NET and ADO.NET 3.5 Extensions. read more...

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Fluent Ordering/Paging with LightSpeed(mindscape.co.nz)

submitted by turtlespin(634) 4 years, 8 months ago

A short overview showing how the Query object in LightSpeed lets you apply aspects such as Ordering and Paging easily and using a Fluent interface style when working with the domain modeling framework and O/R Mapper, LightSpeed. read more...

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