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"Cloud Cloud Cloud, if you're not in it, you're out!"... or something
After I graduated from the HIO Enschede (B.Sc level) in '94 I have worked with a lot of different platforms and environments: from 4GL's like System Builder, uniVerse and Magic to C++ on AIX to Java to Perl on Linux to C# on .NET. All these platforms...

Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:16 AM by FransBouma | 12 comment(s)

LLBLGen Pro v3.0 sneak-peak video
I created a small video (flash movie) of a neat feature of the upcoming LLBLGen Pro v3.0 designer: creating a typed list definition from search results obtained in the designer by running a custom piece of code (C#, with Linq to objects. VB.NET is also...

Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 1:27 PM by FransBouma | 4 comment(s)

Happy 6th anniversary, LLBLGen Pro!
Today, it's been exactly 6 years ago we released the first version of LLBLGen Pro , v1.0.2003.1 after a development period of roughly 9 months (Sunday september 7th 2003, late in the evening). It was a big gamble, would it succeed or fail? We got our...

Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 10:46 AM by FransBouma | 21 comment(s)

LLBLGen Pro and SQL Azure
LLBLGen Pro works with SQL Azure, that is, the generated code and the runtime library. There are a couple of things you should be aware of, and I'll enlist them briefly below. The thing which doesn't work is creating a project from a SQL Azure database...

Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 3:48 PM by FransBouma | 1 comment(s)

Soft-deletes are bad, m'kay?
Have you ever ran into database tables with a field which is used to mark if a row has been 'deleted' ? Probably. These fields are used to implement 'soft-deletes'. For the soft-delete impaired, a quick introduction. Soft-deletes are row deletes which...

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:09 AM by FransBouma | 39 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)

Why use the Entity Framework? Yeah, why exactly?
Danny Simmons wrote a marketing piece about the project he's been working on for so long: " Why use the Entity Framework? ". I don't expect Danny to be unbiased towards his own work, so at first I just ignored it: Microsoft produces these kind of ' use...

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 12:42 PM by FransBouma | 32 comment(s)

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