Building Mono for Android (The free mobile platform)

koushikdutta.com — 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. read more...

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EntitySpaces 2009 Video Preview

entityspaces.net — 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. read more...

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EntitySpaces 2009 - Running under Visual Studio (Part 2)

entityspaces.net — 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). read more...

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EntitySpaces 2009 Preview - New Code Generation

entityspaces.net — 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. read more...

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MySQL - We beg of thee, add a true "Guid" datatype to MySQL 6.0

entityspaces.net — Basically, the MySQL Connector/Net (5.2.2.0) provider treats BINARY(16) columns as Guids, though there is not real Guid (uniqueidentifier in Microsoft SQL) data type. However, it's not transparent, there are special read and write methods for it. If you're a MySQL fan let the folks over at MySQL know that you want a true data type for Guids and not an imposter. We appreciate the hard work the MySQL Connector/Net team is doing. After all, MySQL doesn't have a Guid type yet so they are doing what they can. However, we would rather see them lobby the core database engine team for a true Guid column type. How about you? read more...

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EntitySpaces and Silverlight Demo (Part 2)

entityspaces.net — 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. read more...

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EntitySpaces 2008 Beta II Available

entityspaces.net — 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 read more...

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EntitySpaces - Juno Beach and LINQ to SQL

entityspaces.net — If you noticed that I wasn't around much on the forums this past week you weren't imagining things. I was on vacation in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. It's truly paradise on earth. read more...

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