LINQ to XML - XPath

blog.dreamlabsolutions.com — LINQ to SQL may be on it's way out, but LINQ is no way out at all! And don't worry about LINQ to SQL, the ADO.NET Entity Framework is available and guess what it's awesome. Another good usage for LINQ is when you need to query an XML file. When working with LINQ to XML you may remember the old days when you used XPath. But don't worry anymore there is support for XPath on LINQ to XML. There are extension methods for LINQ to XML in the System.Xml.Xpath namespace! Read this blog post if you are interested in an example, and find out if there are any performance issues! Have fun reading! read more...

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dev \ efor - visual studio plug-in

devefor.com — dev \ efor is the visual studio plug-in that helps you monitor your development progress While you are actively using your visual studio development environment, dev \ efor monitors your development progress, stores information and process project & solution based datas to let you know about your development efforts, software metrics, the trend and the history about your projects that you’ve been working on with Microsoft Vistual Studio IDE With dev \ efor you can; Calculate project & solution based software metrics. See the trend of your software metrics. Check out how much actual effort you spent during working on projects. Query these datas for custom & friendly time intervals. Export these datas to an Excel 2007 file. ( .xlsx ) Save chart images to an image file. (.png) Best out of it, dev \ efor is completely free ! download it from www.devefor.com read more...

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Mono 2.0 Released

mono-project.com — The Mono Project has released version 2.0 of Mono, enabling developers to run their .Net 2.0 applications on Linux and OSX. read more...

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Aggiorno 1.2 released! Better Performance, IE8 features and more

aggiorno.com — The guys over at Artinsoft just released a refresh to their aggiorno web assistant tool, from their website "aggiorno represents a new generation of tools for software developers that uses advanced transformational technologies, for turning any existing website into a valid, findable, accessible standards compliant one"... it really is a great tool and totally worth it to check it out. read more...

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Inheritance and Associations with Entity Framework Part 2

submitted by mosessaur 3 months, 9 days ago

mosesofegypt.net — In the previous part I discussed Table-per-Hierarchy Inheritance, in this part I'll go through Table-per-Type Inheritance model. There is a video demonstrating this model if you wish to watch. Here I'll update my previous sample with new entities that demonstrate the Table-per-Type Inheritance model read more...

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Inheritance and Associations with Entity Framework Part 1

submitted by mosessaur 3 months, 14 days ago

mosesofegypt.net — In this multi parts series I'll explore how to build inheritance with Entity Framework showing 2 different approaches of inheritance in Entity Framework. Beside that I'll show how to build simple association between 2 entities and show how to provide custom code to retrieve other parts of the relation when inheritance is applied. In this part I'm exploring Table-per-Hierarchy Inheritance model in EF read more...

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Objectively evaluating O/R Mappers

codebetter.com — Microsoft has single-handedly pushed O/R Mapping to the center of conversation, and we struggle to objectively differentiate between the choices. Arguments like "Tool X rocks", or "Tool Y sucks" are hard to understand. I'd like to more objectively discuss the basis on which we should accept or reject an O/R Mapper. As always, it depends on context. read more...

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