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Democratizing the Cloud
InfoQ posted a very interesting video from the ‘Democratizing the Cloud’ presentation by Erik Meijer in QCon. Democratizing the cloud means “Make easier to program distributed applications”. He wants us to build a single tier app and publish it in multiple...
Posted: Aug 14 2007, 12:19 AM by aaguiar | with 2 comment(s)
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Digging into LinQDataSource
The sample code that ScottGu showed for LinQDataSource made it look like it should be called LinQToSqlDataSource. After installing Beta2 I took a look at it. It only has design time support for LinQ To SQL, but you can bind it to any LinQ query in the...
Posted: Jul 30 2007, 12:54 AM by aaguiar | with no comments
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UI for MSBuild builds
Gaston just published the tool he wrote for running MSBuild scripts. We've been using it internally and we can't live without it.Give it a try!
Posted: Apr 17 2007, 10:51 AM by aaguiar | with no comments
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ADO.NET Orcas Entity Framework and disconnected operation
David Simmons explained how the 'disconnected mode' works today in Entity Framework (and as far as I know, that's the way it will work in the Orcas release). Basically, there is no disconnected mode. You can create a context and attach objects...
Workflow and Rich Object Frameworks
Rocky Lhotka claims WF is complimentary of his CLSA.NET framework. His argument can be actually applied to any rich object framework where you put your business logic inside your domain model. I don't think Workflow by itself will have an impact on...
Clarius Software Factories Toolkit
The wizards from Clarius released a 'Software Factories Toolkit' to help you building DSL/GAX-based tools. There's noone in the world that can do that better than them, so if you are doing DSL/GAX stuff, you should give it a look. The announcement...
ADO.NET v.next CTP is out
At last, the ADO.NET v.next bits are public! Read the announcement here . Keep an eye in the ado.net team blog for more information about it. It includes an ASP.NET build provider, so you can drop a xml file with the model definition in App_Code and you...
Posted: Aug 16 2006, 12:16 AM by aaguiar | with 2 comment(s)
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Stored Procs vs Dynamic SQL
In DeKlarit's booth at TechEd I had to talk more than I wanted about the famous Stored Procs vs Dynamic SQL debate. People still thinks Stored Procedures are faster, even if there is much evidence that shows otherwise. Fortunately, when they go and ask...
Posted: Jun 22 2006, 02:52 PM by aaguiar | with 17 comment(s)
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ADO.NET Entity Framework - It's not just O/R mapping
Pablo Castro re-announced the Entity Framework . The white papers are up again. A lot of people have been referring to the ADO.NET EF as an O/R mapper. And it is. But it's much more than that. The EF lets you design your conceptual model based on updateable...
Posted: Jun 20 2006, 04:34 PM by aaguiar | with 2 comment(s)
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DAT101 - Microsoft's Data Platform Vision
It was a good session. I totally buy MS's Data Vision. The most interesting stuff for me is the Entity Framework. At last there will be a conceptual data model that all MS products will share (Reporting, Replication, Analysis Services, ADO.NET). This...
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