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Things we wish Microsoft would fix in Visual Studio 2010

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:30:24 GMT

Now I know we are probably only one of ten companies in the world who actually need to write data plugins for Visual Studio. But there are a few things that are so broken they tend to really drive me nuts. I had a chance to speak with other DDEX developers at TechEd last year and asked them about these things. Almost universally they said "Yep, it's broke". And when I asked how they dealt with these issues, they almost all said that they ended up having to write custom wizards, dialogs, etc for Visual Studio because the built in ones are broke or don't know how to use Data Providers correctly.

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.

How to get jQuery Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 with SP1?

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:17:29 GMT

To get jQuery intellisense in Visula Studio you need to do the following.

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.

Sad Way To Do Business

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:01:03 GMT

how to make a bad impression with poor support and bad atitude and throw away thousands potential customers.

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.

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 "Cast" Support

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:01:03 GMT

The casting logic is now in-place for EntitySpaces 2008. Let's look at a few quick examples so you can get a feel for how this new feature works. These examples are not be real world scenarios and were chosen to merely demonstrate the syntax.

EntitySpaces 2008 Preview

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:01:04 GMT

Take a look at the major enhancements coming in ES2008 as outlined in this blog post. A new code generator, enhanced DynamicQuery, more providers ...

EntitySpaces - new esEntityCollectionView class

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:46:03 GMT

The esEntityCollectionView acts like the ADO.NET DataView class only for EntitySpaces Collections. This new class will allow you to have multiple views on the same collection each with a different sort and filter acting independently of other views.