NHIbernate 2.0 Goes Beta 1 after Microsoft ‘Linq to Entities’ receives

published 5 days, 2 hours ago, submitted by dcarr 5 days, 8 hours ago

damon.agilefactor.com — The first official beta for NHibernate 2.0 was released today. This comes on the heels of the damaging ‘boycott’ of the Microsoft ‘Linq to Entities’ upcoming release, which was anticipated to be a serious competitor to NHibernate. LAST MINUTE UPDATE FROM THE NHIBERNATE TEAM There has been a change in how NHibernate is packaged as the core and contrib aspects now have dedicated locations. Since NHibernate 2.0 Alpha 1, ONLY THE CORE of the project is included at the link above. The Contrib Projects are now in a dedicated location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhcontrib There are a few new projects that are essential to investigate for your needs (for example the Burrow project). Also be sure to visit the wiki for these significant projects: http://nhcontrib.wiki.sourceforge.net See the end of this post for a partial list of these contrib efforts. The team at domain.dot.net has been working with 2.0.X since the first alpha, and following the progress of the trunk. In our opinion this beta has the high quality of prior betas and we recommend it for non-critical systems immediately as your risk policy allows. We’re working on a more detailed analysis coming soon on some of the key improvements. To download the code direct from the trunk use this SVN URL: https://nhibernate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nhibernate This is no minor update, as with this release they will align with the widely used and praised ‘Hibernate 3.2’ for Java. Here is a listing of the planned new features which are represented to varying degrees of complexness in this beta: read more...

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Which .NET Blogger Do Girls Like Better?

published 7 days, 23 hours ago, submitted by zigamorph 8 days, 8 hours ago

coderjournal.com — Find out which .NET blogger is more popular with the ladies. Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Jeff Atwood, or Joel Spolsky I received an invite to Google Ad Planner. As I was playing around with this new tool, I was really blown away by how much information Google has collected on specific websites. So much so that I wanted to share this tool with my readers, but I couldn’t come up with an interesting way to demonstrate the capabilities. Until I started looking up some of my favorite bloggers and saw the almost embarrassing balance between females and males. read more...

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A Small and Fast Domain Modeling Tool

dev102.com — Mindscape have released a major upgrade to their LightSpeed domain modelling / ORM tool. Version 2.0 includes a visual model designer integrated into Visual Studio, LINQ support, and the ability to access multiple databases concurrently. read more...

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Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater

encosia.com — An example of one way of using ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery to implement client-side Repeater functionality. Using this technique on one of my own sites, I realized an over 400% performance gain. read more...

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SQL Server in One Page - Download it Now

published 2 months, 6 days ago, submitted by pinaldave 2 months, 7 days ago

blog.sqlauthority.com — One of the most popular request I have received on this blog is to create one page which list all the SQL Server FAQs. SQL Server technology is very broad as well very deep. This is my humble attempt to list few of the daily used details in one page. Let me know your opinion and suggestion. Download SQL Server FAQ Sheet in PDF format read more...

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jQuery.ui Sortable

published 2 months, 7 days ago, submitted by rstrahl 2 months, 7 days ago

west-wind.com — Sortable lists are a common thing to work on and jQuery.ui's Sortable plug in makes it super easy to create very nice looking sortable lists that work consistently even in complex layouts. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC CSS Sprite

published 2 months, 8 days ago, submitted by zowens 2 months, 8 days ago

weblogs.asp.net — I build on my last technique of generating CSS Sprites and make a unique solution for the MVC framework using a custom ActionResult. read more...

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LINQ to XML in 3 easy steps

dev102.com — Linq to xml provides an easy query interface for XML files. In the following example I will demonstrate how to use it for reading and writing data from/to xml file, using the file for persistency maintaining a list of objects. read more...

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