Seeing what was always there : Depend and the NHibernate 2.0 Use Case

submitted by dcarr 9 days, 13 hours ago

codebetter.com — When Patrick Smacchia [MVP C#] posted using his amazing tool NDepend on the changes in .NET 3.5 SP1, it seemed only natural as we had been obsessed, intrigued and blown away by NDepend for what seems like years and years. However his post ,without us realizing, set a new standard of content. We didn't think twice about covering NHibernate 2.0 and adding the NDepend output as 'Patrick did it for SP1 and everyone loved it'. This is a very, very good thing. It means people care about dependencies (it is after all called NDepend) as indeed a criticul success factor. But there is so much more. So much more......Lets hope this level of discussion and understanding become part of our culture as much as the long-awaited 'OO Design' mandates are not part of .NET culture. Damon Wilder Carr Anyway, read more...

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Linq to Financial Markets : New Optimizing/Parsing Provider

submitted by dcarr 13 days, 11 hours ago

blog.domaindotnet.com — We just finished the final iteration for this and went gold. Although this post has more marketing then I would normally post here, I at least wanted to let fellow Linq fanatics that our 'semi-secret' project with a few companies you might know has at least for now reached a milestone. And who could announce a new product without Silverlight (grin).. No seriously we love it. WPF was not all that compelling and XAML didn't look like much fun until we got our killer app in Silverlight. We even wrote a Linq version of the 'scribbler' code the deep zoom team posted if anyone would like it. Anyway, lots of good technical material will follow. We learned a lot and continue to learn a lot from dissecting the Linq to NHibernate project. What makes this work so fun is it demands optimization across different vendor web services. We do a kind of 'query optimizer' to decide how to fan out requests where we know the general characteristics of say 'asset classes' as data series vs. say a large list of equities. read more...

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TICKER - Activity of MSDN and TechNet Communities

submitted by dcarr 23 days, 13 hours ago

ticker.microsoftcommunities.com — OK I'm late to the game and still skeptical on the whole UI as new MTV that is happening. In the end users will decide however this is pretty damn cool I must admit and... I will admit to perhaps opening deep zoom composer (grin).. but it's all about the domain not the view! Ok I feel better now. Damon read more...

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Undocumented Linq! .NET 3.5 SP1 Gold Forgot to mention you might break

submitted by dcarr 24 days, 12 hours ago

blog.domaindotnet.com — Undocumented Linq! .NET 3.5 SP1 Gold Forgot to Mention these Critical Changes that might Break your Code BREAKING CHANGE: Cast<T> Behavior Also, a new implementation recognizes queries that apply Where and/or Select to arrays or List<T> and fold pipelines of multiple enumerable objects into single specialized enumerables. According to Dinesh Kulkari at Microsoft this enhancement: "….produces substantial improvement in base overhead of common LINQ to Objects queries (at times 30+%)." read more...

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Writing your first Domain Specific Language, Part 1 of 2.

submitted by dcarr 25 days, 17 hours ago

codeproject.com — Fantastic Coverage of the Irony Project. We have extended that library and are about to publish work on a DSL environment for the ajax driven web apps (and more).. Check out site for the application itself (soon) or a screen shot. The first DSL allows connections to various cities in the world and the DSL is a language to control image position for either a static (but recent) cam image or (phase 2) literal control where available of the perspective. The first phase is running, just cleaning up some bits. It's so cool to use syntax like: move view up. move view right. zoom in. and indeed that happens with an ajax updated change in the image your seeing..It's That is a dynamic language with full CLR compatibility. Kind Regards, Damon Wilder Carr read more...

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Microsoft's Cwalina : Exceptions are for "Exceptional Events"

submitted by dcarr 27 days, 13 hours ago

blogs.msdn.com — Critical Baseline Knowledge... read more...

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ReSharper Releases 4.01 Beta 1 as EAP Build 917 – Download Here

submitted by dcarr 30 days, 12 hours ago

blog.domaindotnet.com — On the heels of their 4.0 release which further cemented their utter dominance as the must have Visual Studio 2008 augmentation for true enterprise development, their not resting in the least. Click here to download the new EAP post 4.0 beta 1 release of 4.01 (a maintenance focused release). Please participate by providing your experiences to JetBrains so they can evolve this work into another solid must have upgrade. Click here to join their issue tracker as well as newsgroups. We’re using this release with great success (however we do not use the VB.NET aspects so no comment there). Also make sure to check out the add-ins for 4.0 here. read more...

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Linq Framework Design Guidelines - evolve into optimized frameworks

submitted by dcarr 1 month, 5 days ago

blog.domaindotnet.com — This is from the team that brought you ‘Framework Design Guidelines’ led by Krzysztof Cwalina, an individual we are not shy to recognize as an amazing mind. Look for this content (as shared here from their internal work) in the next of the book For example : defer execution of query operator implementations. The expected behavior of most of the Query Pattern members is that they simply construct a new object which, upon enumeration, produces the elements of the set which match the query. The evaluation time is, then, at enumeration. read more...

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