Contents tagged with Tools
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Windows Live Writer Tricks
As many others, I use Windows Live Writer (WLW) as my main tool for blogging. It has aged a bit over the years and sometimes crashes, but I think it is still the best tool around for this purpose. It will only get better if Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) succeeds in releasing it as open source!
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Entity Developer Review, Part 4
This is my fourth post on Entity Developer, Devart’s O/RM tool for NHibernate, Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL. The first post was an introduction to Entity Developer and a general description of its usage, the second was focused on NHibernate and the third on Entity Framework. This time I am going to cover some aspects that were not mentioned in the previous posts.
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Entity Developer Review, Part 3
Here is part 3 of my exploring Entity Developer series, this time, on Entity Framework. Read the first part here and the second here.
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Entity Developer Review, Part 2
Here’s my second post on Entity Developer, this time, focused on NHibernate. You can find the first part here.
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Entity Developer Review, Part 1
I recently started to use Entity Developer, by Devart, to generate entities from my databases. It is a commercial product, mind you, and I am in no way affiliated with them, I just happen to like it, so I am going to talk a bit about it.
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Instant StyleCop Code Analysis How-to Review
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Using the Enterprise Library 6 Configuration Console with Visual Studio 2012
You will have to download and run the Configuration Console from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38789, there is no NuGet package for it. After that, you will get a context menu for each project on the solution for editing the configuration:
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NDepend 4 – First Steps
Thanks to Patrick Smacchia I had the chance to test NDepend 4. I can only say: awesome!
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NHibernate Tools: Visual NHibernate
You probably know that I’m a big fan of Slyce Software’s Visual NHibernate. To me, it is the best tool for generating your entities and mappings from an existing database (it also allows you to go the other way, but I honestly have never used it that way).
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NDepend 3
Patrick Smacchia, of NDepend fame, was kind enough to offer me a license for its latest version, 3.0, now fully integrated with Visual Studio 2010.