In development at Actipro – November 2008

blog.actiprosoftware.com — Actipro talks about some new features planned for their SyntaxEditor for WPF and Editors for WPF products. read more...

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What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

spoiledtechie.com — In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits. read more...

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EntitySpaces 2009 Video Preview

entityspaces.net — We have created a video preview of our EntitySpaces 2009 Plugin for Visual Studio. The video is approximately 6 meg in size so give it a moment to get started. The video has sound and you might need to adjust your volume. We hope that you enjoy this video. It really gives you a feel for what it's going to be like to use EntitySpaces 2009, and it's really nice never having to leave Visual Studio. read more...

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How to design your data connectivity strategy

codebetter.com — Pull an existing persistence tool off the shelf, make sure you understand it, and code, code, code! Persistence coding is a commodity in this day and age, so just use and existing tool and get on with your project. I'll repeat this little gem one last time, if you're writing ADO.Net code by hand, you're stealing from your employer or client. read more...

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Debate: Do We Really Need Three Layer Architecture?

forums.asp.net — How many of you changed your database vendor (i.e. Sql Server, Access) after developing an application? How many of your data entities include business logic? I could say, less than 10% in both cases for my case. I found the similar statistics for my other known developers. I guess this is true for less that 10% of the developers around the world. read more...

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Json.NET 3.5 Beta 1 – Big performance gains, Compact Framework support

published 1 month, 6 days ago, submitted by JamesNK 1 month, 7 days ago

james.newtonking.com — New in this beta release of Json.NET 3.5 are big performance improvements (400%), Compact Framework support and lots more. read more...

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EntitySpaces 2009 - Running under Visual Studio (Part 2)

entityspaces.net — In this post we'll take a look at both the Template Browser and the template user interface mechanism. The Template Browser lists the templates in a tree based on each template's Namespace located in the template header (shown left). You can see from the TemplateInfo tag in the template header that there is both a Namespace and a UniqueID attribute. The UniqueID will be discussed later when we dig into the user interface. Now, however, let's take a look at the Template Browser. The Template Browser is shown below (while running under Visual Studio). read more...

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EntitySpaces 2009 - Running under Visual Studio

entityspaces.net — EntitySpaces 2009 will plug right into Visual Studio and it will use its own internal code generator. This means that Visual Studio users will never have to leave Visual Studio to work on or generate their EntitySpaces architecture. The image below shows how EntitySpaces 2009 looks embedded within Visual Studio. While it is likely to change a little before our first beta this should provide you with a feel for ES2009. The nice thing is that ES2009 is a dockable window just like any other window within Visual Studio, you can even generate your EntitySpaces classes directly into your solution and the folders/files will be created automatically for you. read more...

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