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Building Mono for Android (The free mobile platform)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:29:09 GMT

Koushik Dutta managed to get Mono compiled and running under Debian running side by side with Android. He built Mono "natively" by setting up the Debian environment in the emulator. For the sake of having all the instructions in one place on how to set up a native build environment under Debian, he consolidated and tweaked the directions from Saurik's post on how to set up Debian on the G1.

There is More Content than Just the Front Page on DotNetKicks

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:01:03 GMT

Are you tired of going to DotNetKicks and finding the same stories on the front page for days in a row? Trust me, there is some great content out there that never makes the front page. You just have to look a little deeper. When you do, you can help put some of that great new content in front of the masses. Even if you don't submit stories yourself, you can still help out by giving the initial votes that push a story to the front page.

EntitySpaces 2009 Beta Available for Public Download - No Registration

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:31:04 GMT

We are pleased to make the EntitySpaces 2009 Beta available for public release. The EntitySpaces 2009 Trial version is fully integrated with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008. There is also a stand alone executable for those not using Visual Studio. If you are looking at starting a new project in 2009 take a look at EntitySpaces 2009. It's a great architecture and we no longer rely on a third party code generator. To get started, simply install and switch to the "Settings" tab and connect to your database and click the "Save" icon and you're off and running. We will be publishing a series of video's on how to use ES2009 soon. Watch for these on our blog.

An idea on how-to avoid spam in Dot-Net-Kicks

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:16:20 GMT

The "Upcoming Stories" RSS in Dot-Net-Kicks is full of SPAM. Here's a idea on how to avoid it: Use a .NET captcha: ask questions that are difficult to guess but easy to answer. Read and Kick. It will help us all.

Dustin Campbell on the Future of VB in VS2010

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:28:25 GMT

Dustin Campbell, a self-professed "IDE guy", is speaking at the .NETDeveloper's Association of Redmond this evening, on the future ofVisual Basic in Visual Studio 2010, and I feel compelled, based on myearlier "dissing" of VB in my thoughts of PDC post, to give VB a littlelove here.

In development at Actipro - November 2008

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:33:06 GMT

Actipro talks about some new features planned for their SyntaxEditor for WPF and Editors for WPF products.

VisualSVN 1.6 Released

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:46:11 GMT

VisualSVN team released the new and improved version of the professional Subversion integration for Microsoft Visual Studio - VisualSVN 1.6. This release brings significant usability improvements such as Quick Revert, editor-aware status and Hot Switch features.

What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:31:12 GMT

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.

EntitySpaces 2009 Video Preview

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:46:02 GMT

We have created a video preview of our EntitySpaces 2009 Plugin for Visual Studio. The video is approximately 6 meg in size so give it a moment to get started. The video has sound and you might need to adjust your volume. We hope that you enjoy this video. It really gives you a feel for what it's going to be like to use EntitySpaces 2009, and it's really nice never having to leave Visual Studio.

How to design your data connectivity strategy

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:20:01 GMT

Pull an existing persistence tool off the shelf, make sure you understand it, and code, code, code! Persistence coding is a commodity in this day and age, so just use and existing tool and get on with your project. I'll repeat this little gem one last time, if you're writing ADO.Net code by hand, you're stealing from your employer or client.

NHibernate Profiler: A guided tour

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:01:31 GMT

Ayende provides an introduction to his upcoming tools for analyzing NHibernate usage.

Debate: Do We Really Need Three Layer Architecture?

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:46:09 GMT

How many of you changed your database vendor (i.e. Sql Server, Access) after developing an application? How many of your data entities include business logic? I could say, less than 10% in both cases for my case. I found the similar statistics for my other known developers. I guess this is true for less that 10% of the developers around the world.

Boy Scout Check-ins

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:16:02 GMT

How to leave your code campground cleaner than you found it.

Json.NET 3.5 Beta 1 - Big performance gains, Compact Framework support

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:46:04 GMT

New in this beta release of Json.NET 3.5 are big performance improvements (400%), Compact Framework support and lots more.

EntitySpaces 2009 - Running under Visual Studio (Part 2)

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:46:03 GMT

In this post we'll take a look at both the Template Browser and the template user interface mechanism. The Template Browser lists the templates in a tree based on each template's Namespace located in the template header (shown left). You can see from the TemplateInfo tag in the template header that there is both a Namespace and a UniqueID attribute. The UniqueID will be discussed later when we dig into the user interface. Now, however, let's take a look at the Template Browser. The Template Browser is shown below (while running under Visual Studio).

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.

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 2008 - 09/15 Released

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:30:27 GMT

We are pleased to announce that the official EntitySpaces 2008 0915 release is now available for download. This will be the final EntitySpaces 2008 release. Work is already underway on EntitySpaces 2009 and we will make a blog post filling you in on the some of details very shortly. Major Performance Enhancements are just a part of this release ....

Chrome didn't survive long...

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:31:07 GMT

I uninstalled Google Chrome after considering the potential threads for privacy

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.

Lutz Reflector now owned by Red Gate

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:01:05 GMT

Lutz Reflector, the free .NET disassembler every developer developer should have, has been purchased by Red Gate software. Red Gate has stated they will continue to provide the tool for free.

A Serious Challenge for Open Source?

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:46:02 GMT

. . . what Mindscape has done is really quite impressive. To evaluate, accept, and incorporate feedback that quickly into the product and to have the installer ready that afternoon is impressive - for anyone.

Forgot that connection string?

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Provides connection strings to many databases by many methods. An essential reference.

.NET 3.0 Partial Methods

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:16:03 GMT

No, not partial classes, partial methods. Read on if you did a double take like I did.

Using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:01:13 GMT

Now that the latest version of BlogEngine.NET is out, it is easier than ever to get your blog running with VistaDB Express. I've been using VistaDB Express with BlogEngine.NET for a little while now and just love it....