Free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in

mindscape.co.nz — The Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (sexy name we know, but hey, it’s self documenting) is a free Tool Window add-in for VS 2008 that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view. It’s particularly useful for performing routine file system tasks without the need to “context switch” away from Visual Studio, which can be time-consuming over the course of days and weeks. It is shell-enabled so extensions like TortoiseSVN work too. read more...

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Development Team Meetings - Keeping the Focus

submitted by tokes 5 months, 11 days ago

andrewtokeley.net — Weekly team meetings are an essential part of any Development Team. Especially when team members are working on different projects and multiple locations. Keeping these meetings relevant and informative is crucial – people are busy and no-one wants their time wasted. I recently sent out an email expanding on the types of meetings we have and how people can participate – perhaps they will help your team when they get together. read more...

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Rich domain modeling with Visual Studio 2008

mindscape.co.nz — LightSpeed 2.0 includes a powerful visual domain model designer that has support for database round tripping (auto update on schema changes, push model changes to the database), creates .NET 2.0 compliant or .NET 3.5 compliant code depending on the target framework of your project and customizable code generation templates. Drag and drop database support for SQL Server, Oracle, My SQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL is also supported right out of Visual Studio 2008. Free version available. read more...

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Leveraging LightSpeed specific features from LINQ

mindscape.co.nz — Post about accessing the powerful features that LightSpeed offers through the new LINQ provider supplied with LightSpeed 2.0. Specifically this article deals with leveraging the powerful Named Aggregates feature and Soft Delete functionality. read more...

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When to use LINQ?

mindscape.co.nz — Great, in-depth discussion of when it makes to sense to use LINQ in LightSpeed 2.0. read more...

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Introducing LINQ to LightSpeed

mindscape.co.nz — LightSpeed 2 incorporates LINQ (Language Integrated Query) support. LINQ to LightSpeed means that if you know LINQ, you can get these benefits without having to learn a new API. You can continue to write LINQ queries as if against LINQ to SQL or another LINQ provider, but you’ll get database independence (effectively LightSpeed gives you LINQ to Oracle, LINQ to MySQL, LINQ to PostgreSQL and LINQ to SQLite as well as LINQ to SQL Server, all in the one box), advanced eager loading functionality (avoiding the so-called “n+1” problem which affects some LINQ implementations) and of course the blazingly fast LightSpeed query engine. read more...

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Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released

published 5 months, 27 days ago, submitted by crpietschmann 5 months, 28 days ago

weblogs.asp.net — Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today. Silverlight 2 Beta2 supports a go-live license that allows you to start using and deploying Silverlight 2 for commercial applications. There will be some API changes between Beta2 and the final release, so you should expect that applications you write with Beta2 will need to make some updates when the final release comes out. But we think that these changes will be straight-forward and relatively easy, and that you can begin planning and starting commercial projects now. read more...

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Using the unit of work-per-request pattern in ASP.NET MVC

mindscape.co.nz — Describe a simple, efficient and testable approach to implementing the unit of work-per-request (a.k.a session-per-request) pattern in Microsoft’s new ASP.NET MVC framework. read more...

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