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Frans Bouma article about why a cache in an O/R mapper doesn't make it fetch data faster.
Preface
One of the biggest myths in O/R mapper land is about 'caching'. It's often believed that using a cache inside an O/R mapper makes queries much faster and thus makes the O/R mapper more efficient. With that conclusion in hand, every O/R mapper which doesn't use a cache is therefore less efficient than the ones who do, right?
Well... not exactly. In this article I hope to explain that caching in O/R mappers is not there for making queries more efficient, but is there for uniquing. But more on that later on. I hope that at the end of the article, I have convinced the reader that the myth Caching == more efficiency is indeed a myth. Beware, it's perhaps a bit complicated here and there, I'll try to explain it in as much layman's terms as possible. -
How to detect old versions when deploying the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX)
I received an interesting question from a customer this weekend. They are working on a setup package that will include the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly the WinFX runtime components) as a prerequisite, and they wanted to automatically run the vs_uninst_winfx.exe cleanup tool to make sure that there were not any previous beta versions on the system that would cause setup to fail. This cleanup tool does not have any silent switches, and it is only designed as an end user tool and not a redistributable setup component, so I advised the customer against including this.
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DSL Tools V1 to ship with Visual Studio SDK V3 in first part of September
Having just returned from vacation, I thought I'd update folks about the V1 release of DSL Tools. This will be shipped as part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 3 in the first part of September.
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WCF and WCF Security Guidance Packages Released.
You can go to the download page here. On the download page you will also find an excel spreadsheet which has features that are planned for the December CTP release of Service Factory.
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What's the difference between working on an open source project and working on a paid job
Steve King (author of TortoiseSVN) has an interesting article on the differences between working on his open source project and his paid job.
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Interesting interview question
Ayende has posted an interesting code snippet useful to measure how much a candidate to a job knows about the compiler he/she claims to work on.
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Learn more about your site's status in the Google index.
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Pilot invites go out for Microsoft’s AdSense competitor
Microsoft’s long awaited contextual advertising platform, named ContentAds, sent out the first invitations today to prospective participants in its pilot program. Starting on “primarily” (their word) MSN owned sites, Microsoft says that ContentAds will place advertisements using not just keywords but also demographic targeting, geo-targeting and incremental bidding tools. Sounds like AdSense plus some consideration of the demographics of various MSN sites’ readership - we’ll see what happens when ContentAds are released into the wild. We’ll probably see soon.
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Clearing Enum Flags
Somebody just pointed out to me that the enum guidelines don’t provide any information on how to clear a flag in a flags enum variable.
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Heralding PLINQ into the LINQ party
eWEEK reports today, the announcement of PLinq. I'll quite directly from the article, as Andreas Hejlsberg captures the concept succinctly:
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My next monitor - If I can get my manager to approve the purchase...
http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/08/28/radius_320_moni.html
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Omea Reader 2.x and items showing up under wrong feeds
I am trying out Omea Reader and I really like the UI and ability to create search folders similar to what I had in Outlook.
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More Windows Vista US Pricing and Launch Date Revealed!
LonghornBlogs: Well, the big to-do for the day has been Vista pricing. Apparently Microsoft Canada's not the only company that's going to have someone fired today. Amazon.com has all prices online for pre-order. They've also listed a launch date, which apparently is January 30th, 2007.
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Windows Vista Pre RC1 Build 5536 Available for first 100,1000
This page includes information to help you download the Windows Vista pre-RC1 ISO file. This pre-RC1 build is available for a limited time – we will close the program when we reach 100,000 downloads.
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Longhorn Terminal Services Remote Programs
This is just my first gallery, and I’m already working on the second one will include installing and configuring Terminal Services and TS Web Access.
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Setting up links to external documentation in Sandcastle
Sandcastle supports 4 different link type options. The link type options are defined in sandcastle.config file under ResolveReferenceLinks component. The 4 different type options under this component are the following:
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Folder Marker
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PCG - Performance Counter Grapher
I have an initial version of Performance Counter Grapher up and running.
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TeamCI: Continuous Integration for Team Foundation Build
Notion Solutions announced the release of TeamCI, which is a solution to provide continuous integration for Team Foundation Build. You can download TeamCI from Team System Rocks. For more information, see Dave McKinstry's blog (Continuous Integration for Team Build).
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What's new in August 2006 Sandcastle CTP
August 2006 Sandcastle CTP should be available to download shortly. Here is a summary of what's new in this CTP version:
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Launching sandcastledocs.com wiki site
Molly Bostic, program manager, MSDN Wiki and a member of my team helped me last night to setup Sandcastledocs.com sharepoint wiki website. Thanks Molly J
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.NET Framework 3.0 (WinFX runtime) administrator mode and deployment readme
I previously posted an item describing the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly known as the WinFX runtime components) deployment guide. I noticed this morning that there is also a detailed administrator mode and deployment readme file for the .NET Framework 3.0. This readme covers the following topics:
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How can I customize an MSI in the Visual Studio setup/deployment project?
Question:
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USB Beverage cooling device
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How to configure post-build events for setup/deployment projects in Visual Studio 2005
While researching a previous blog post, I discovered a way to configure post-build events for setup/deployment projects in Visual Studio 2005. I had not realized that previous versions of Visual Studio did not support configurable post-build events for setup projects, but Visual Studio 2005 does. In addition, the way to access the UI needed to configure this setting for a setup project is different than for other project types in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.
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Roy Osherove is starting a new Unit Testing Book
I'm happy to announce my new Book Project : "The Art Of Unit Testing". The book will use examples in .NET, but it should be general enough so that any java or C++ developer should be able to read it and learn things. I'll talk more about the book's contents in future posts.
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Windows Vista Build 5536 Released To Testers
Bink.nu - Windows Vista Buld 5536 (vista_5536.16385.060821-1900_vista_rc1_x86fre_client-LR1CFRE_EN_DVD.iso) was released to Microsoft beta testers tonight, on the Microsoft Connect website.
More to come :-).
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Microsoft reveals more about Live Drive
Microsoft has confirmed more details of its forthcoming Live Drive service, which will offer free online storage.
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Internet Explorer 7 RC1 now available
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DO NOT update VMware Tools to 5.5.2.29772 !!
VMware has not posted this fix yet and they also have not released a new version to fix this problem, so read carefully!!
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Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1 Available
[via Rob Caron’s blog]
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August CTP of ADO.NET vNext Available
This is the announcement about the next CTP for LINQ from Pablo. I was able to get a lot of info about it talking to the ADO.NET guys @ TechEd and I look forward to seeing more coming from this team!
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AnkhSVN 1.0 RC Available
Now that SourceForge and Google both support hosting projects in Subversion, more and more people I know are making the switch! AnknSVN is a VS.NET plugin that allows you to perform a lot of svn functions from within visual studio.
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SonicFileFinder 1.1 is out.
Hey, this is cool! I got an special thanks on Jens’ blog! Jens is the one who deserves thanks for releasing a cool vs.net plug-in for free! (thanks jens!)
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Get notified of TFS builds with Team BuildTicker
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Cool VS.NET Plugin: SonicFileFinder
[via Roland Weigelt’s blog]
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Visual Studio 2005 SDK - August 2006 CTP now available
Visual Studio 2005 SDK - August 2006 CTP now available
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Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft
[via The Daily Grind 940]
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