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LINQ to SQL is NOT dead!

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:00:03 GMT

Ever since Microsoft announced that the Entity Framework was their ORM of choice, people everywhere have been saying, "LINQ to SQL is dead!" A lot of people feel like they're not allowed to use LINQ to SQL anymore and that they have to use Entity Framework instead. In fact, LINQ to SQL is not only alive and well, Microsoft has even announced LINQ to SQL improvements in .NET 4.0, including finally adding using ITable<T> for tables instead of Table<T>, which makes it much easier to test. Combine that with this open source tool that will create an IDataContext interface for you and you're on your way to testable LINQ to SQL. So no, LINQ to SQL is not dead!!

LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:15:00 GMT

What's fixed and breaking changes for LINQ to SQL in .NET 4.0

The DataSet rant

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:25:21 GMT

A small rant on the pain of DataSet

MIX09: ScottGu crazy keynote intro!!!

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:29:15 GMT

ScottGu red polo mania gets MIX09 Keynote...

Is CSS all that Great?

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:10:43 GMT

Any developer that's been around a while remembers the magic of table layouts. It was part of every tutorial on how to create a website. The days have changed and now we see a big push for CSS everywhere. CSS zealots are everywhere, almost as prolific and dedicated as Mac fans! But is CSS evangelism all it's cracked up to be?

Remoting issues w/ auto properties

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:41:44 GMT

In this post Derik Whittaker shows that how our friend automatic properties can lead to problems that are hard to detect.

Is Nick Stakenburg Bullying His Open-Source 'Competitor'

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:16:02 GMT

This is obviously a scare tactic used by a vendor to frighten a 'competitor' who is encroachinig on his sales. Nick (the vendor) is jarred by the fact that someone has released a comparable (better?) product that his and it is free. It behaves somewhat the same, so obviously it was copied... This is a serious issue, we can't let companies push around open-source with threats like this.

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Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:16:08 GMT

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Awful Command Line Parsing API in .NET 4.0

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:31:02 GMT

Miguel de Icaza about System.Core's new System.Shell.CommandLine

Diving in NHibernate.Validator

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

Surfing in the NET, to find some NHibernate.Validator (NHV) example, I saw that there are various things not so clear about how NHV is working. In this post I'll try to give you a more deep explication....

Script to delete all data from Sql Server database

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:21:12 GMT

Sometimes while developing we have situations when earlier fill some dummy data in our database in earlier stages of development using some data generation tools such as RedGate Sql Data Generator or EMS Data Generator. Now its really hectic task if you want to remove all this data either for production, or testing with new database or experimenting yourself with some hand filled or manually filled values. This article gives you a script to do this.

MS SQL Server: Disconnect Users From Database. Kill User Session Query

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:47:06 GMT

If you have ever encountered an error due to users being contected to MS SQL, this article will solve your problem by executing a short query. This query will Kill the user's session and disconnect them from the database. This is a common problem I run into when I restore by database from a backup. Read More . . .

Why you should not use the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:01:12 GMT

Reasons to why the ADO.NET Entity Framework is not mature enough for real business application.

The Problems with NHibernate

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:46:02 GMT

The problems that exist for NHibernate to become better, and have better adoption rates.

Get ASP.NET Report Viewer to Occupy 100% Height and Width - Crossbrows

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:03:41 GMT

How to get the ReportViewer to fill the browser window so that is works cross browser.

Secure ASP.NET MVC Applications

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:16:07 GMT

One of the greatest advantages of ASP.NET MVC is that it provides a "Close to the Metal" programming experience and you have full control over the HTML. It aslo means that you should care about the vulnerabilities regards with your HTML. In webform, server controls would be automatically HTML-encoded their outputs. While developing ASP.NET MVC apllications, you should filter your HTML to avoid XSS attacks. Use the following HTML helper methods to avoid vulnerabilities in your ASP.NET MVC applications.

Dealing With Enterprise Library Injection Policy And Unity IoC

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:12:02 GMT

In this article I'll provide a Generic Unity Factory Class in order to take advantage of Unity and Injection Policy easily.

jLINQ - add LINQ-ish capabilities to your javascript

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:18:53 GMT

jLINQ is an effort to bring the same functionality as the Microsoft .NET LINQ to the JavaScript library jQuery. jLINQ is mostly targeted for collections of Objects, but will work with regular arrays as well.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate shipping in January

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:01:02 GMT

ScottGu talks about the upcoming Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC V1 and the features it brings to the table

KB957541 available for direct download (credit where credit is due)

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:21:34 GMT

his is the fix for the ExecutionEngineException that appeared in .Net 3.5 SP1, and was found by Rhino Mocks.

Oxite - Oh Dear Lord Why?!

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:01:16 GMT

Oxite is an open source application built on ASP.NET MVC and Karl Seguin raises some points related to the design/architecture/implementation.

The SQL Server Service Broker for the current database is not enabled

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:20:20 GMT

Are you having troubles accessing your SQL server database withthe problem "The SQL Server Service Broker for the current database is not enabled" I couldn't believe how simple the solution was.

Keep Methods Short & Stop with the Curly

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:59:49 GMT

There are two major annoyances when it comes to good code and readable code. Here are 2 things that really every team should ensure happens 1) Any method should not be more than 50 lines but preferably 25 if possible. I cannot stand huge methods. The point of OOP is

ASP.NET Caching with .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:46:15 GMT

Take a quick look at ASP.NET Caching with .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1.

Conquering VB envy with C# 4

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:24:43 GMT

Hints at how the embedded XML syntax of VB.Net might be implemented using the dynamic language features of C# 4.0