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You probably heard about Win8 today. The short story is that they showed a touch-centric shell on top of Win7. Microsoft want us to start building touch-centric apps for that shell using HTML5. I don’t have any doubts that existing apps will still run...
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...
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. Some time ago the EF team proposed a complex...
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 . Building Quince was a lot of fun. We had a UX team and a Visual Design team working...
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. As I guess everyone in the world is waiting to listen what I have to say about it, I'd just say that I liked...
Amazon Cloud offering provides, in beta, a Windows VM and a way to run SQL Server. The Microsoft Cloud preview basically provides a way to run ASP.NET, what it looks to be Windows Workflow activities, WCF services, and use SQL Data Services. Microsoft...
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...
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...
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!
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...
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