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So really, it is just about here! I leave in just over 48 hours to head to Las Vegas for the third annual US OpenForce (DotNetNuke conference), once again being held at Mandalay Bay along with DevConnections. If the previous two years were any sort of indicators this year is promising to be a good time! I’m excited about heading out to Vegas again, and getting to see all my DotNetNuke brethren. It’s going to be another busy week, registration and such on Monday, a keynote on Monday night. Conference...( read more ) Read More...

This is an Open Letter to the Editor of CIO in response to an article posted on Computer World discussing the five problems that supposedly keep legacy applications out of the Cloud. Dear Editor, In light of your recent article about the challenges that legacy application face in migrating to the cloud, below please find a response which provides answers to 4 of the most problematic issues. We believe your readers would greatly benefit from the information, and we regret that we were not directly...( read more ) Read More...

It’s been a few months since the last release of WikiPlex , but I honestly have good reasons – paternity leave! This updated version has taken in a lot of user feedback and put it into action – so thank you for contributing ideas… ( read more ) Read More...

In my previous post I wrote about a small utility that automatically generates Data Transfer Objects from LINQ to SQL Data Classes. Few days ago I had the time to add an important feature – the application can now generate DTO’s from ADO.NET Entity Framework Model as well. I also renamed the application to DTOGenerator and published it in CodePlex. Data Transfer Objects in 2 Diagrams There are really a lot of explanations about Data Transfer Objects in the web. You can read about them in the MSDN Magazine . But, Here is a 2 diagrams that show the concept of DTO’s in 2 most common scenarios: Getting Information: DAL=>BLL=>GUI (click to enlarge) Insert Information: GUI=>BLL=>DAL (click to enlarge) How to Use DTOGenerator Creating Data...

Few weeks ago I posted in my Hebrew blog a post about using Data Transfer Objects to work with LINQ to SQL and ADO.NET Entity Framework (that currently both of them doesn’t support working with POCO). One of the comments I got was that using DTO’s takes twice the time than not using them. That’s because you have to write DTO class for each entity and you also have to write  method in the DTO class that return the DAL object (the object created by the ORM and mapped to a table in the DB) from the DTO and vice-versa. Although I don’t think it’s too much work, and i think that the advantages are significant enough to make the effort worth, I wrote during my job a small code generator that create DTO’s for each entity in the LINQ to SQL DataClasses...

Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying Read More......( read more ) Read More...

The Visual WebGui web developers community continues to initiate with some more cool projects. We are proud to present the Genius Code project. GeniusCode.net is the spontaneous idea of Ryan Hatch and Jeremiah Redekop - the blog includes anything from screencasts to code articles while the idea is that Anyone can be a genius. "We've discovered some tools that developers can use in order to implement their ideas quickly and effectively," said Ryan and added that "the blog focuses on LLBLGen and Visual...( read more ) Read More...

It's only been a few weeks since the v1.0 release, but a lot of work has gone into a new release of CodePlex's embeddable wiki engine, WikiPlex . The time in between has not been without a few highlights, including… ( read more ) Read More...

Following up from my prior post on Extending WikiPlex with Custom Macros it’s now time to talk about creating custom renderers. When we left off, we had created our title link macro and registered it with WikiPlex …[ read more ] Read More...

One of the very nice features of WikiPlex is the ability to extend it to your hearts desire. The API is completely open, and the entry points off of WikiEngine are merely wrappers. This means that, if you really wanted to, you could create your own parser and formatter - but the majority of extending WikiPlex will be done via macros and renderers. A summary of the extension points include… ( read more ) Read More...