Contents tagged with .NET
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Windows 8, HTML, .NET
You probably heard about Win8 today.
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Oslo and the Entity Framework
Doug Purdy announced that the Oslo and the Data Programmability team were merged.
Since I first heard of the Entity Framework, it was pretty clear to me that it was designed to be the 'Model' of the .NET Framework. Even if there were some disagreements over the EF programming model or their designers, the 'modeling' part of the story looked pretty well (even if I can still not map some fairly common scenarios (1)).
If Oslo wanted to drive ´Model-Driven Development' in the .NET platform, and if they took a very 'data-driven' approach, it made sense that they used the EF as their model.
It looks that in addition of fluent interfaces for the EF, we´ll have a way to define an EF model in M, which would be much better than the current XMLs. We´ll need to wait until PDC to find out.
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Client side change-tracking data structures in .NET
A couple of years ago I was involved in a couple of threads about doing change-tracking in client-side data structures to support multi-tier development, just like DataSets do, but with the Entity Framework.
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Building Infragistics Quince – UX Patterns Explorer
On Monday we shipped Quince. I was part of the team that build it, and we are very happy with the results. You can read the official announcement and description here.
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Oslo
I was going to write a large post on Oslo, until I found this one. I still did not play enough with it yet to add value to what Fowler said.
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Clouds
Amazon Cloud offering provides, in beta, a Windows VM and a way to run SQL Server.
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Democratizing the Cloud
InfoQ posted a very interesting video from the ‘Democratizing the Cloud’ presentation by Erik Meijer in QCon.
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Digging into LinQDataSource
The sample code that ScottGu showed for LinQDataSource made it look like it should be called LinQToSqlDataSource.
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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!
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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).