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The evil of the Office UI ribbon license
For the next major version of a certain application I'm working on (gee, what might that be ) I'm researching some UI frameworks and techniques. In the past few months I've spend most of my time working on application support library code, language designs...

Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:21 PM by FransBouma | 14 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 | with no comments

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)

VB.NET: Beware of the 'Aggregate' keyword (updated)
UPDATE I tested this initially with EmployeeID and noticed the strange behavior. Writing this blogpost I thought the max of the employeeID was a little artificial, so I changed that in OrderDate. But... what happened (see my reply to this blogpost below...

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:36 PM by FransBouma | 7 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)

Anti-agile hatemail
Today I received through the contact form on this blog a hate-mail from a guy who called himself 'Ryan'. Ryan used a fake, non-existing email address so the only way to respond to him is via my blog, hence this post. Let's look at the email first: From...

Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 11:35 AM by FransBouma | 35 comment(s)

Beta of Linq to LLBLGen Pro released!
Today we released the beta of Linq to LLBLGen Pro to our customers so they can dig in and check if we provided the right code, if everything works allright etc.! If you're an LLBLGen Pro v2.x customer and you want to check out our Linq implementation...

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:53 PM by FransBouma | 4 comment(s)

Developing Linq to LLBLGen Pro, part 14
Update: I made a mistake in the first Linq to Sql query. It's not that slow as I previously posted. I didn't filter on country, which made it pull the rows of all 91 customers into memory instead of the 11. Fetching 91 customer rows, 818 order rows and...

Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 7:18 PM by FransBouma | 3 comment(s)

Developing Linq to LLBLGen Pro, part 13
(This is part of an on-going series of articles, started here ) Last time I talked about implementing Single. It turned out to be fairly straightforward, but as I explained in the previous episode, it's a weird method and has different behavior related...

Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:58 PM by FransBouma | with no comments

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