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In-process ASP.NET MVC Web Form View Rendering

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:20:13 GMT

Sometimes it's useful to be able to render a view in-process, for example, from within a unit test if you would like to validate the rendered XHTML.

LightSpeed 2.1 Released - includes new search API

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:01:02 GMT

LightSpeed 2.1, the performance minded object relational mapping framework, is fresh from the oven with new features like database independent full text search capabilities using Lucene.Net, Visual Studio integrated designer enhancements and a bundle of other new features.

NHaml: Block Methods and RESTful Helpers

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:17:06 GMT

Describes some cool new NHaml features supporting REST style helper methods.

ASP.NET MVC Tip #35 - Use the NHaml View Engine

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:01:08 GMT

In this tip, I explain how you can use the NHaml view engine as the view engine for an ASP.NET MVC application. I demonstrate how to create NHaml views that display both static content and database records. I also discuss how you can use master pages and user controls with the NHaml view engine.

A Serious Challenge for Open Source?

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:46:02 GMT

. . . what Mindscape has done is really quite impressive. To evaluate, accept, and incorporate feedback that quickly into the product and to have the installer ready that afternoon is impressive - for anyone.

Free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:31:03 GMT

The Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (sexy name we know, but hey, it's self documenting) is a free Tool Window add-in for VS 2008 that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view. It's particularly useful for performing routine file system tasks without the need to "context switch" away from Visual Studio, which can be time-consuming over the course of days and weeks. It is shell-enabled so extensions like TortoiseSVN work too.

Elegant Invariant Checking with C# 3

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:16:03 GMT

Leveraging expression trees and extension methods to build a fluent invariant checking API.

How to use NDepend to improve code quality

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:16:09 GMT

Code quality is an important aspect of every software development project - discover how NDepend can aid in giving you a richer and more meaningful understanding of the quality of your code as well as helping to identify areas you could improve. This post is a high level overview of what you can achieve with NDepend.

Faster domain model development with schema round-tripping

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:01:02 GMT

Schema round-tripping is the ability for your domain model entities to be updated seamlessly when schema changes occur or, when your modify your model, for those changes to be propagated back to your database schema without any fuss. This article covers how to leverage schema round-tripping with LightSpeed 2.0's Visual Studio 2008 integrated domain design tool. This functionality is baked into every version, including the free express edition.

Rich domain modeling with Visual Studio 2008

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:16:03 GMT

LightSpeed 2.0 includes a powerful visual domain model designer that has support for database round tripping (auto update on schema changes, push model changes to the database), creates .NET 2.0 compliant or .NET 3.5 compliant code depending on the target framework of your project and customizable code generation templates. Drag and drop database support for SQL Server, Oracle, My SQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL is also supported right out of Visual Studio 2008. Free version available.

Leveraging LightSpeed specific features from LINQ

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:54:28 GMT

Post about accessing the powerful features that LightSpeed offers through the new LINQ provider supplied with LightSpeed 2.0. Specifically this article deals with leveraging the powerful Named Aggregates feature and Soft Delete functionality.

When to use LINQ?

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:16:03 GMT

Great, in-depth discussion of when it makes to sense to use LINQ in LightSpeed 2.0.

Introducing LINQ to LightSpeed

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:31:02 GMT

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.

"Velocity" project - memcached by Microsoft?

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:31:07 GMT

Is the Velocity project by Microsoft simply a me-too framework or are they creating real value for developers on the Windows platform?

LightSpeed 2.0 Released

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:16:02 GMT

LightSpeed 2.0 has been released. It includes a full, round-tripping Visual Studio designer and support for LINQ!

Using the unit of work-per-request pattern in ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:01:03 GMT

Describe a simple, efficient and testable approach to implementing the unit of work-per-request (a.k.a session-per-request) pattern in Microsoft's new ASP.NET MVC framework.

Cool WPF MulticolumnTreeview

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:01:02 GMT

Great, detailed article on using a WPF MulticolumnTreeview control to display complex, hierarchical data.

LightSpeed 2.0 Gets Visual Studio Designer

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:46:02 GMT

First it was LINQ support, now LightSpeed 2 gets a complete Visual Studio design experience.

Ninject: Getting all the stuff you'll need

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:16:03 GMT

A primer on getting started with Ninject. It uses NLog, Ninject and LightSpeed

Mindscape releases WPF Elements

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:01:04 GMT

WPF Elements is a suite of 12 controls that make WPF more approachable for developing line of business applications. Included is a MulticolumnTreeView (aka TreeListView) control, MaskedTextBox control, DateTime controls, Numeric text boxes and much more.

Progress update on the IronRuby in Action book

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:01:02 GMT

A progress update on the IronRuby in Action and an attempt to get some feedback from the community on some doubts around the book

Using Ruby to generate LightSpeed models

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:16:02 GMT

The end of a 4 part series on creating a little ruby application to generate lightspeed models. It demonstrates usage and provides links to relevant information.

LightSpeed 1.2 Released

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:31:02 GMT

Mindscape released a new version of LightSpeed, their OR mapper. There are quite a lot of new features like more mapping options and a cool debugger visualizer that shows the queries being executed to get the data from the DB.

Mindscape ships the WPF Property Grid

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:31:02 GMT

The prolific Mindscape from Wellington (NZ) released another cool developer's tool: a property grid for WPF.

Internet Explorer 8 now passing Acid2

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:46:02 GMT

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.