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EntitySpaces - WCF DynamicQuery Serialization

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:46:43 GMT

We have decided to use the WCF DataContract approach when serializing our enhanced DynamicQuery's. In our upcoming alpha release our DynamicQuery classes now live in a separate assembly that can execute on the client side along with your EntitySpaces proxies without requiring either the EntitySpaces.Core or the EntitySpaces.Interfaces assemblies. The EntitySpaces.DynamicQuery assembly (only 52k in size) is also compatible with Silverlight and can run down inside of the browser.

Can you Query me now?

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:31:02 GMT

EntitySpaces 2009 Q2 is going to revolutionize your ability to use the EntitySpaces 2009 architecture on the client side of any two-way conversation, whether it be a Silverlight, WCF, or a webservices conversation. In fact, you will be able to work on the client side as if the full EntitySpaces architecture was at your disposal but without actually requiring the EntitySpaces architecture be present on the client. "But how can that be?" you wonder. Continue reading and we will explain.

EntitySpaces 2009 Announces Support for Sybase SQL Anywhere

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:31:30 GMT

EntitySpaces is pleased to announce support for the Sybase SQL Anywhere Database Management System. Our plan is to support iAnywhere for both high end server applications as well as on the Compact Framework for mobile applications which will further strengthen EntitySpaces' mobile abilities (we already support Microsoft SQL CE and VistaDB for mobile applications). If there is demand we will consider supporting the Sybase SQL Anywhere UltraLite version as well.

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

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:16:02 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.

EntitySpaces 2009 Persistence Layer Official Release (Q1)

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:46:13 GMT

We are pleased to announce the official release of EntitySpaces 2009 Q1. The Trial Version has also been upgraded to the official release. Features of EntitySpaces 2009: * Complete Visual Studio integration. * Stand alone executable for those not using Visual Studio. * No third party code generation tools required (No need for MyGeneration or CodeSmith). * Project files to record and play back your code generation process with a single click. * Command line tool that can execute your EntitySpaces projects in continuous integration builds. * Debugger Visualizer and other debugging enhancements. * Totally updated Web Admin Templates.

EntitySpaces 2009 Q1 WCF Demo

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:30:14 GMT

I created a new WCF demo for EntitySpaces, one of the most popular third party ORM solutions available for .NET.

Whitehouse.gov: an ASP.NET site

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:46:03 GMT

This article looks into the JavaScript libraries, HTTP headers, platform and more of the new Whitehouse website. It includes statistics and some suggestions.

Building Mono for Android (The free mobile platform)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:29:09 GMT

Koushik Dutta managed to get Mono compiled and running under Debian running side by side with Android. He built Mono "natively" by setting up the Debian environment in the emulator. For the sake of having all the instructions in one place on how to set up a native build environment under Debian, he consolidated and tweaked the directions from Saurik's post on how to set up Debian on the G1.

EntitySpaces 2009 Beta Available for Public Download - No Registration

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:31:04 GMT

We are pleased to make the EntitySpaces 2009 Beta available for public release. The EntitySpaces 2009 Trial version is fully integrated with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008. There is also a stand alone executable for those not using Visual Studio. If you are looking at starting a new project in 2009 take a look at EntitySpaces 2009. It's a great architecture and we no longer rely on a third party code generator. To get started, simply install and switch to the "Settings" tab and connect to your database and click the "Save" icon and you're off and running. We will be publishing a series of video's on how to use ES2009 soon. Watch for these on our blog.

99.99% available ASP.NET and SQL Server SaaS Production Architecture

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:46:58 GMT

Best practices for designing production architecture for a highly available ASP.NET website running on SQL Server. Guarantees 99.99% availability for Level 3 SaaS.

Advices on partitioning code through .NET assemblies

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:31:12 GMT

There're many reason why you should keep the number of your .NET assemblies to the strict minimum. Learn them here.

EntitySpaces 2009 Video Preview

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:46:02 GMT

We have created a video preview of our EntitySpaces 2009 Plugin for Visual Studio. The video is approximately 6 meg in size so give it a moment to get started. The video has sound and you might need to adjust your volume. We hope that you enjoy this video. It really gives you a feel for what it's going to be like to use EntitySpaces 2009, and it's really nice never having to leave Visual Studio.

How to design your data connectivity strategy

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:20:01 GMT

Pull an existing persistence tool off the shelf, make sure you understand it, and code, code, code! Persistence coding is a commodity in this day and age, so just use and existing tool and get on with your project. I'll repeat this little gem one last time, if you're writing ADO.Net code by hand, you're stealing from your employer or client.

EntitySpaces 2009 - Running under Visual Studio (Part 2)

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:46:03 GMT

In this post we'll take a look at both the Template Browser and the template user interface mechanism. The Template Browser lists the templates in a tree based on each template's Namespace located in the template header (shown left). You can see from the TemplateInfo tag in the template header that there is both a Namespace and a UniqueID attribute. The UniqueID will be discussed later when we dig into the user interface. Now, however, let's take a look at the Template Browser. The Template Browser is shown below (while running under Visual Studio).

EntitySpaces 2009 - Running under Visual Studio

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:46:09 GMT

EntitySpaces 2009 will plug right into Visual Studio and it will use its own internal code generator. This means that Visual Studio users will never have to leave Visual Studio to work on or generate their EntitySpaces architecture. The image below shows how EntitySpaces 2009 looks embedded within Visual Studio. While it is likely to change a little before our first beta this should provide you with a feel for ES2009. The nice thing is that ES2009 is a dockable window just like any other window within Visual Studio, you can even generate your EntitySpaces classes directly into your solution and the folders/files will be created automatically for you.

EntitySpaces 2009 Preview - New Code Generation

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:16:10 GMT

EntitySpaces has teamed up with Justin Greenwood (shown left) of MyGeneration Software to create a brand new code generation engine for EntitySpaces 2009. Because of Justin's code generation expertise we contaced Justin and asked him to create a very simple, lightweight code generation engine whose only job is to execute templates (there is no user interface support by design). The code generation engine makes the EntitySpaces MetdataEngine available as an intrinsic object available to all templates through the "esMeta" property. We already have a working version of the code generation engine and thought we would share our progress with you.

EntitySpaces 2008 - 09/15 Released

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:30:27 GMT

We are pleased to announce that the official EntitySpaces 2008 0915 release is now available for download. This will be the final EntitySpaces 2008 release. Work is already underway on EntitySpaces 2009 and we will make a blog post filling you in on the some of details very shortly. Major Performance Enhancements are just a part of this release ....

EntitySpaces performance compared to SubSonic performance

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:10:30 GMT

Looks like EntitySpaces has gone through further optimizations that enable it to be compared dramatically with SubSonic performance-wise.

MySQL - We beg of thee, add a true "Guid" datatype to MySQL 6.0

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:01:02 GMT

Basically, the MySQL Connector/Net (5.2.2.0) provider treats BINARY(16) columns as Guids, though there is not real Guid (uniqueidentifier in Microsoft SQL) data type. However, it's not transparent, there are special read and write methods for it. If you're a MySQL fan let the folks over at MySQL know that you want a true data type for Guids and not an imposter. We appreciate the hard work the MySQL Connector/Net team is doing. After all, MySQL doesn't have a Guid type yet so they are doing what they can. However, we would rather see them lobby the core database engine team for a true Guid column type. How about you?

EntitySpaces 2008- LINQ to DataTable?

Sun, 25 May 2008 08:31:03 GMT

I have always built architectures on top of ADO.NET DataTables, they're fast (yes), flexible, and the power it provides is really pretty good. Additionally, as new features are added to ADO.NET they can then be easily absorbed. We were able to add LINQ to SQL to EntitySpaces by simply turning a LINQ query into an ADO.NET DataTable. Once we exchange the LINQ query for an ADO.NET DataTable the EntitySpaces architecture functions as normal since its underlying data structure is a DataTable. Pretty sweet. Here's a nice little trick in case you are not aware of it.

EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 2)

Tue, 27 May 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Part One described the process of getting Silverlight to interact with a WCF web service, and showed how to bind EntitySpaces based data objects (WCF client proxies) to Silverlight controls, specifically a DataGrid control. While there were a lot of pages of review in Part One, it was mostly point-and-click "configuration coding", as MyGeneration, EntitySpaces, and Visual Studio did most of the work for us. But showing data in a grid isn't very exciting. It's time to look at some interaction with data and give EntitySpaces a little more credit than just a data wrapper.

Is the ADO.NET Team Abandoning LINQ to SQL?

Sat, 24 May 2008 01:46:07 GMT

Roger Jennings, eagle-eyed reporter of all things LINQ/ADO.NET/EF, describes why LINQ to SQL appears to be approaching legacy product status, with promised features unlikely to ever ship.

EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 1)

Tue, 06 May 2008 22:46:03 GMT

I was asked to see how easy it would be to get EntitySpaces objects to work inside Silverlight, and to demonstrate my findings. This was a curiously interesting notion, since many have pondered whether Silverlight is a valuable runtime environment for LOB (line-of-business) applications. There are a number of reasons why Silverlight, at least in its Version2 flavor, would be very ideal for building client/server applications ...

EntitySpaces 2008 Beta II Available

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:16:03 GMT

The EntitySpaces 2008 Beta II is now available. The version number is 2008.0.0427.0 and is available for download now on our home page

MVC, TDD, ORM, WCF, OMG LOL

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:46:39 GMT

SubSonic, EntitySpaces, and a little humor ....