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The Undo-Redo paradox
In July 2008 I started development on LLBLGen Pro v3's new designer. The first thing I realized was that I needed a good, solid, generic framework to base the new designer on, especially because v3 would introduce a new big feature: model-first entity...

Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 4:10 PM by FransBouma | 21 comment(s)

Baby-sitter Framework 2.0: Change tracking in the EF v2, it's still your problem
More than 1.5 year ago (!) I wrote an article about why change tracking of changes of an entity should really be inside an entity object . Change tracking is the concern of the O/R mapper and the entity object, not the developer using the entity object...

Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 10:52 AM by FransBouma | 9 comment(s)

Designing a language is hard, and M won't change that
I was a bit surprised about the large scale of the positive hype around 'M' in Oslo. Fortunately, Roger Alsing wrote a 'Back to reality' post about M which stood out as a single critical remark against the sea of positivism. I like it when someone chooses...

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:36 PM by FransBouma | 13 comment(s)

from el in world.ExtensionMethodsLibraries group el by el.Method into g select g;
Everyone who's doing .NET 3.5 development these days will likely run into the same problem I ran into this morning: your set of extension methods grows beyond the level of a single file and you need to group them into separate sets of files or worse:...

Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:27 PM by FransBouma | 24 comment(s)

New interview with me on DotNetRocks!
A new interview with me about everything O/R mapping and more is now live at .Net Rocks ! Enjoy!

Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:33 AM by FransBouma | 11 comment(s)

Is BDUF really BDUF?
Justing Etheredge posted a great article about that Design Up Front (DUF) is something else than Big Design Up Front (BDUF). He discusses the misunderstanding that just because BDUF is considered harmful in a lot of projects, it's not said that DUF is...

Posted Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:53 AM by FransBouma | 10 comment(s)

"The Entity Data Model is much bigger than just an ORM" -- Stephen Forte
With almost bleeding ears I'm currently listening to show #369 of .NET Rocks! , which has Danny Simmons and Stephen Forte as guests. Danny is of course known of his major role in the Entity Framework (EF) design and Forte is one of the Council of Wise...

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:51 PM by FransBouma | 16 comment(s)

Linq to LLBLGen Pro: feature highlights, part 2
In the first part of this series I talked about the fact that Linq to LLBLGen Pro is a full implementation of Linq and why it's so important to use a full linq provider instead of a half-baked one. Today, I'll discuss a couple of native LLBLGen Pro features...

Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:00 PM by FransBouma | 1 comment(s)

Linq to LLBLGen Pro: feature highlights, part 1
Some people asked me what the highlights are of Linq to LLBLGen Pro , which was released this week , as it seems that Linq support is apparently growing on trees these days. In this and some future posts I'll try to sum up some of the characteristic features...

Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:11 PM by FransBouma | 4 comment(s)

LLBLGen Pro v2.6 has been released!
After almost 11 months of design, development, beta testing and adding final polish, it's here: LLBLGen Pro v2.6 ! This version, which is a free upgrade for all our v2.x customers, has a couple of major new features, the biggest of course being the full...

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 11:37 AM by FransBouma | 13 comment(s)

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