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LINQ to SQL is NOT dead!

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:00:03 GMT

Ever since Microsoft announced that the Entity Framework was their ORM of choice, people everywhere have been saying, "LINQ to SQL is dead!" A lot of people feel like they're not allowed to use LINQ to SQL anymore and that they have to use Entity Framework instead. In fact, LINQ to SQL is not only alive and well, Microsoft has even announced LINQ to SQL improvements in .NET 4.0, including finally adding using ITable<T> for tables instead of Table<T>, which makes it much easier to test. Combine that with this open source tool that will create an IDataContext interface for you and you're on your way to testable LINQ to SQL. So no, LINQ to SQL is not dead!!

UppercuT - The Insanely Easy to Use Automated Build Framework

Tue, 19 May 2009 07:02:36 GMT

Automated Builds as easy as (1) solution name, (2) source control path, (3) company name for most projects!!! UppercuT is for developers who want a powerful build framework without a lot of set up work. UppercuT is for anyone who needs a standard way of building applications across an entire organization. UppercuT is for anyone who wants to concentrate on just writing code. What can UppercuT do for you? -Compiles your application -Versions the local code build -Runs your unit tests -Runs NCover -Runs NDepend (you will need a license - does not come with UppercuT) -Creates environment configuration files (using ENV.settings files and config.template files) - more on this later -Packages your application for deployment -Along the way, it can run custom tasks for you.

Open Source or Die - The Real Future of Graffiti?

Tue, 12 May 2009 12:16:02 GMT

Telligent's Graffiti hasn't quite flatlined yet, but the signs aren't looking too good. Could OSS be the way to breathe life back into this once-promising CMS platform?

Free T4 Editor for your ASP.NET MVC T4 Templates available

Sat, 09 May 2009 01:01:06 GMT

Found on tangible blog, that the new tangible T4 Editor 1.4 FREE EDITION now includes full Intelli-Sense support for MVC Host and related namespaces used in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM T4 Templates. In addition it provides a nice highlighting for ASP.NET and T4 Code. Seems like anyone can now edit MVC T4 Templates with full comfort without investing a penny. Awesome!

Future of Business Intelligence and Databases

Mon, 11 May 2009 05:31:02 GMT

The term business intelligence (BI) was coined by Howard Dresner in the early 1990s. He defined Business Intelligence as "a set of concepts and methodologies to improve decision making in business through use of facts and fact-based systems." In a time when data warehousing was considered leading-edge he created the vision that led to the development of business intelligence, as it is known today. The once visionary BI is now commonplace and in near future a momentous transformation is about to take place. BI is all set to bring information democracy where end users across an organization will be able to view information related to their segment. Further, with the rising consumer expectations there will be demand for capability requirements of BI as well.

Creating a MVVM "Hello World" application in 30 seconds

Fri, 08 May 2009 17:31:02 GMT

A example of how to create a hello world MVVM application using the MVVM toolkit!

More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:16:02 GMT

In this post, I'll share some of the best practices and guidelines which I have come across while developing ASP.NET MVC web applications. I will not cover all best practices that are available, instead add some specific things that have not been mentioned in any blog post out there. Existing best practices can be found on Kazi Manzur Rashid's blog and Simone Chiaretta's blog.

5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:46:07 GMT

Everyone knows that Phil Haack, Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, and Scott Guthrie all provide good ASP.NET MVC content on their blogs. I wanted to provide a list of excellent resources on ASP.NET MVC that are a little less well known.

Kona: Continuous Integration and Better Unit Testing

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:01:02 GMT

In this screencast Rob Conery and Brad Wilson talk about continuous integration with TeamCity, Unit Testing with xUnit and TDD in general. "This screencast went from a simple idea - talking to Brad Wilson about better Unit Testing - to some pretty broad topics such as source control, unit testing, and continuous integration. I seriously could have written a whole book based on the stuff flying through my mind. I reigned it in a bit and decided to focus on two things that I don't think get enough press: writing a good Unit Test coupled with Continuous Integration."

ASP.NET MVC goes RTM before MIX09

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:46:04 GMT

Not sure if the release was intentional or just someone that forgot to set the timezone field while publishing the download, but ASP.NET MVC has been RTMed before MIX09.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:01:26 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM is released

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon

AnkhSVN 2.0.6310 Released - Subversion Plugin for Visual Studio.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:31:20 GMT

New features include: Experimental support of Visual Studio 2010, Overall performance improvemens, and much more...

ASP.NET MVC Domain Driven Design

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:01:03 GMT

The first in a series of posts detailing how to create ASP.NET MVC projects in a way that facilitates DDD. Fluent NHibernate, NHibernate.Burrow, and MVCContrib will be used.

ASP.NET - YSlow and ASP.NET: 100 points "A" grade is possible

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:46:02 GMT

Just in case if somebody doesn't know what YSlow is? YSlow is Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug. It analyzes web pages and tells you why they are slow. You can run it on you project and see your grade. You can do some easy improvements and maybe even get D grade. However to get higher then D grade becomes a real challenge. Below I will describe how I got A grade (100 points) on my web blog application.

Wikipedia: Antipatterns in Software Engineering

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:19:19 GMT

This wikipedia entry summerises some common pitfalls to be avoided by professionals in Software Engineering.

Tips for Managing ASP.NET MVC Views

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:46:09 GMT

The author gives some tips on managing asp.net mvc views and organizing files withing an asp.net mvc project. Includes suggestions on keeping code out of views.

ASP.NET MVC Action Filter for Localized Sites

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:46:14 GMT

If you've got or want a site which supports multiple cultures using ASP.NET you need to be familiar with setting CultureInfo values for the current thread and UI. This post details an ASP.NET MVC Action Filter to assist with localized site development.

A Failure in Microsofts Open Source Strategy

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:16:13 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 . . .

Learn the Basics Before Programming

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:46:16 GMT

Simone Chiaretta wraps up the recent discussion on the community about the controversy opinions of building a software that only works versus building the software that has a high quality. After that, the leaves his own opinions on this.

Patterns, Purists, and Sinkholes

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:31:04 GMT

Before I was a geek, I was a Geologist. A Geophysicist to be precise - but mostly I just tell people I was a Geologist. I worked a lot with environmental cleanup, but I also spent a lot of time doing what's known as "Geotechnical" work - the stuff that happens before buildings are built and holes are dug. It can be kind of boring, but it's crucially important. One day I was sitting in our lab with some dark Bay Mud in a crucible, slowly adding water in measured doses and then pouring the mud through a screen and weighing out differences. I won't bore you with the details - I'll just tell you that I was 23 and cranky that this is what my career amounted to - a bunch of rigorous nonsense where I got to weigh mud.

Jeff Atwood Finally Jumps the Shark

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:46:04 GMT

Well, we all knew it had to happen eventually. After years of great blog posts and insightful commentary on the programming world, Jeff Atwood has finally jumped the shark in his latest post which essentially says "programming is hard, let's go shopping!"

Today I've Realized How Far We Have To Go

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:01:02 GMT

A call to climb on the shoulders of giants within the software develeopment industry.

Fluent Validation With ASP.NET MVC and Db4o

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:16:02 GMT

In this post, Tuna tries to implement validation that uses Fluent Validation as its validation framework. The approach he has taken is to apply validation rules at persistence level.

Generate thumbnails on the fly - Yet another version

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:05:32 GMT

Generate thumbnails on the fly. You can specified maximum height, maximum width, both, specified quality (1-100) and if the image will be cached or not. It is working well with .jpg, .bmp, .png and .gif.