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Live Mesh + Flash == Adobe AIR

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:43:30 GMT

Live Mesh apps officially support Silverlight and DHTML. But they also support Flash! Check out how easy it is to build a Flash Mesh app.

What a developer needs from their manager

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:16:03 GMT

I've a read a lot of articles talking about what it takes to be a good development manager. There are also articles about what makes a good developer. I thought it would be a good idea to describe what a developer needs from their manager.

Is the ADO.NET Team Abandoning LINQ to SQL?

Fri, 23 May 2008 17:46:07 GMT

Roger Jennings, eagle-eyed reporter of all things LINQ/ADO.NET/EF, describes why LINQ to SQL appears to be approaching legacy product status, with promised features unlikely to ever ship.

Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots

Wed, 21 May 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Basics of DDD

Entity Framework: Our Albatross

Tue, 20 May 2008 12:31:04 GMT

ADO.NET Entity Framework. All I needed to know is that there are three different designer-generated XML files. But Dave Laribee rips it a new one here.

More on how Entity Framework's single-model goal is flawed

Tue, 20 May 2008 09:31:07 GMT

Greg takes point with the long-term goal of EF as defining the one true model can't possibly appropriate.

Jimmy Bogard on Entity Framework being OR mapper mapper

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:24:38 GMT

Jimmy details how EF breaks encapsulation and abstraction by trying to be everything to everyone, but EF misses a few very important aspects.

Frans Bourma comparing OR mappers to Entity Framework.

Tue, 20 May 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Frans Bourma details what an OR mapper is about and how that compares to Entity Framework.

Feedback on Danny Simmons' Why use Entity Framework

Tue, 20 May 2008 05:46:07 GMT

Useful feedback on Danny Simmons' "Why use Entity Framework"

LINQ to NHibernate in LINQPad

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:16:03 GMT

LINQPad is like Query Analyzer for LINQ queries. Out of the box it does LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Objects, and LINQ to XML. Wouldn't it be nice if it did LINQ to NHibernate as well? Here's how. The setup process is a bit tedious, but you only need to do it once.

Rhino Mocks Quick Reference

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:01:13 GMT

Concise examples of all the main features of the Rhino Mocks mock object framework

De-crapify your code base with AOP using PostSharp

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:01:02 GMT

How to remove all the code thats irrelevant to what your trying to do, to make your code base easier to grok.

ASP.NET Resource Refactoring

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:46:02 GMT

Easy macros to help i18n your ASPX pages

Using Visual Studio Macros to Increase Productivity

Mon, 21 May 2007 09:31:01 GMT

If you've ever tried to find a particular file or project in a 36 project solution when many projects and folders are expanded, then you know how fustrating it can be. After putting up with it for over a year, I finally asked a co-worker of mine if he knew of a way to quickly jump to a particular project in Visual Studio. He reminded me that Visual Studio has excellent macro support.

An Open Letter to Scott Guthrie

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:31:01 GMT

Speaking and working with developers who live daily with your tools, I find confusion and concern over your relationship to the open source community that has grown up around the .Net platform. While Sun, IBM, other platform providers, and ISVs clearly see the open source community as a complimentary codebase to their products, Microsoft tends to use the best and brightest work from the community space as a feature map for .Net.

Using Custom Attributes to Enable Quick Searching of Your Domain Entit

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:46:01 GMT

I've started work on the search piece of our application. Searching (no pun intended) for some inspiration on how users might want to search within our application, I brought up the current WinForms version, and then the ASP.NET version. I realized that we need to make searching easier in WinForms client, currently when searching for a patient in our WinForms client, you are presented with a separate text box for first name, last name, SSN, date of birth, and health record number. Our ASP.NET client presents just one text box to search all of those fields.

NHibernate, DateTime and UTC

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:16:01 GMT

We are in the midst of doing a total rewrite of our Software, and one of the things that has come up is date and time. How do we do it, how do we store it, and how do we ensure that we can compare DateTime from one timezone to DateTime in another timezone. After a lot of research, we settled on using UTC (or UCT depending on your preference). FxCop will take care of ensuring we use UTC (for the most part), or so we thought...

CompositeUserTypes in NHibernate

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:31:02 GMT

Often times when you're developing an application, there is a one-to-one mapping between your domain model (object model) and your database schema. Doing it this way often times makes it easier to wrap your head around everything going on in your app. But this isn't always the right way to do things.

Generic NHibernate Enum String Mapping

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:31:02 GMT

Today one of my coworkers mentioned all the little NHibernate enum mapping turd classes that were accumulating in our data access layer. See this post for more details on how it works and why you would want to do this. I wondered aloud if generics could be used to eliminate this waste of disk space. A few minutes later, this is what we came up with.