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The desperate quest for doing it 'right'
This morning I ran into an interesting design decision. The problem at hand isn't that interesting, I've solved it a lot of times before. The interesting thing is that this problem isn't always solved the same way. It goes like this: do you tell an element...

Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 1:00 PM by FransBouma | 15 comment(s)

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)

Happy 2009!
To all my readers, and everyone else: I hope you all have a great, productive, healthy, awesome 2009! For me personally, 2009 will be a big year with the release of LLBLGen Pro v3, which I think will be a serious milestone in my vision about how people...

Posted Thursday, January 01, 2009 3:27 PM by FransBouma | 8 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)

"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)

Linq to Sql support added to LLBLGen Pro
Imagine, you're sitting at your desk and you're using the Linq to Sql designer in VS.NET 2008 and you have, say, 50 entities in your model. You're happy about how things are progressing. It took a while to get the model set up, considering the wicked...

Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:50 PM by FransBouma | 14 comment(s)

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