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Entity Spaces 2009 alpha released

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:13:07 GMT

Says on the site: "We have released our EntitySpaces 2009 Alpha internally to our customers and if all goes well within a week or so we will publish a trial version on our download page for everyone to try."

Keys To Web 3.0 Design and Development: I Have A Theory About Litter v

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:16:39 GMT

Stop putting litter in your meat. That's gross, you can't easily digest that stuff. Just stop it! Throw out your litter altogether and haul it out after dinner.

SiteCore: Is the ultimate CMS also the ultimate ASP.NET app overall?

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:40:56 GMT

I think SiteCore v6 sets the bar for all web applications to try to measure up to.

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0: Microsoft did it! They married DOM and Javascript!!

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:36:39 GMT

ASP.NET AJAX templates are a new feature of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Library that make it easy to create dynamic data-driven user interface (UI) in the browser. ASP.NET AJAX templates consist of HTML markup to which you add attributes and annotations that specify run-time behavior.

Eliminating Postbacks: Setting Up jQuery On ASP.NET Web Forms and Mana

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:50:50 GMT

This is a follow-up to a prior post, Keys to Web 3.0 Design and Development When Using ASP.NET. Now I want to focus solely on getting jQuery and client-side data managmeent working with ASP.NET 2.0 without ASP.NET AJAX or ASP.NET MVC.

EntitySpaces 2009 - Running under Visual Studio

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:46:09 GMT

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.

Quick Tip: Invoke A URL From SQL Server Agent

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:06:06 GMT

Perform batch jobs from a web context.

Quick Tip: Use ASP.NET Templating To Generate E-mail Bodies Or Other T

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:57:12 GMT

ASP.NET already exists for the purpose of templating. Make the most of it.

Keys To Web 3.0 Design and Development When Using ASP.NET

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:39:30 GMT

Ten rules to consider for hard-core agile and beautiful ASP.NET development.

EntitySpaces 2009 Preview - New Code Generation

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:16:10 GMT

EntitySpaces has teamed up with Justin Greenwood (shown left) of MyGeneration Software to create a brand new code generation engine for EntitySpaces 2009. Because of Justin's code generation expertise we contaced Justin and asked him to create a very simple, lightweight code generation engine whose only job is to execute templates (there is no user interface support by design). The code generation engine makes the EntitySpaces MetdataEngine available as an intrinsic object available to all templates through the "esMeta" property. We already have a working version of the code generation engine and thought we would share our progress with you.

EntitySpaces performance compared to SubSonic performance

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:10:30 GMT

Looks like EntitySpaces has gone through further optimizations that enable it to be compared dramatically with SubSonic performance-wise.

IoC By Way Of Simple Event Raising: Part 2 - Contained Interfaces and

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:46:01 GMT

I introduce a new data peristence pattern I call Evented Record in this continued discusson of using interfaces and events for IoC.

IoC By Way Of Simple Event Raising: Part 1

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:20:23 GMT

Does dependency injection really have to be that hard?? I don't think so.

Why I'm Unimpressed With Rawness Of Skillz

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Since forever, geeks who take themselves seriously have loved to brag such things as, "I use Notepad to edit web pages". Carrying this over to actual programming, "I never click into the designer when editing my ASPX", or "I never design a database using designer tools, I always design it all using raw T-SQL," or "I always update my SVN from the command line". (Someone in a local tech user group bears the post signature, "Real men use Notepad.") Puhleeze. I'm not impressed, and frankly I think anyone who brags like this should get a swift kick in the pants.

Using client templates, part 1

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:34:06 GMT

Last week, we shipped the first preview for the Ajax work we're doing in ASP.NET 4.0 under the simple form of a simple script file (release and debug versions). This should show how much emphasis this release puts on the client-side. As a matter of facts, I'll use a plain HTML file here instead of an ASPX file to make it perfectly clear that everything here (except for the web service that provides the data) runs on the client.

T-SQL: Universal User Map

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:29:14 GMT

Create a universal user ID mapping table to bridge your application add-on with an unlimited number of web applications.

New York Times proves out Silverlight integration in a native Mac appl

Sun, 25 May 2008 03:41:58 GMT

New York Times has migrated their popular WPF-based New York Times Reader to the Mac, using Silverlight and native Cocoa windowing and application logic, and using the Safari / WebKit API as a Silverlight wrapper. (Darn it, I knew it was both doable and legal!)

EntitySpaces 2008- LINQ to DataTable?

Sun, 25 May 2008 00:31:03 GMT

I have always built architectures on top of ADO.NET DataTables, they're fast (yes), flexible, and the power it provides is really pretty good. Additionally, as new features are added to ADO.NET they can then be easily absorbed. We were able to add LINQ to SQL to EntitySpaces by simply turning a LINQ query into an ADO.NET DataTable. Once we exchange the LINQ query for an ADO.NET DataTable the EntitySpaces architecture functions as normal since its underlying data structure is a DataTable. Pretty sweet. Here's a nice little trick in case you are not aware of it.

EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 2)

Mon, 26 May 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Part One described the process of getting Silverlight to interact with a WCF web service, and showed how to bind EntitySpaces based data objects (WCF client proxies) to Silverlight controls, specifically a DataGrid control. While there were a lot of pages of review in Part One, it was mostly point-and-click "configuration coding", as MyGeneration, EntitySpaces, and Visual Studio did most of the work for us. But showing data in a grid isn't very exciting. It's time to look at some interaction with data and give EntitySpaces a little more credit than just a data wrapper.

EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 1)

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

I was asked to see how easy it would be to get EntitySpaces objects to work inside Silverlight, and to demonstrate my findings. This was a curiously interesting notion, since many have pondered whether Silverlight is a valuable runtime environment for LOB (line-of-business) applications. There are a number of reasons why Silverlight, at least in its Version2 flavor, would be very ideal for building client/server applications ...

EntitySpaces 2008 Beta II Available

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:16:03 GMT

The EntitySpaces 2008 Beta II is now available. The version number is 2008.0.0427.0 and is available for download now on our home page

Javascript: Introducing Using (.js)

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:16:03 GMT

Clean late loading of scripts using using.js.

Lists Of Microsoft's Fame And Shame - 2008

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:31:02 GMT

Things that Microsoft should be paying lots and lots of attention to.

DynarchLIB AJAX Toolkit Looks Interes... Whoa!

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:50:46 GMT

Yet another complete Javascript framework toolkit .. and a nice one too!

Javascript: Cross-Browser EventArgs

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:02:03 GMT

Here's a quick replacement for window.event.