Whoa time flies! . After 9 months of hard work, LLBLGen Pro v2.0 has been released! LLBLGen Pro V2.0 comes with a new licensing scheme: it's now licensed per seat, instead of per-department. Current customers of v1.0.200x.y can upgrade for EUR 49.- per developer. (Designer using developers need a license...

Several days ago it finally arrived: Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns by Jimmy Nilsson ! It's Jimmy's latest book and it's great. Well, 'great' is not really the word, it's more a matter of Must Have , it's that good. It's perhaps a bit strange, to hear from me that a DDD/TDD book, which this...

Several days ago it finally arrived: Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns by Jimmy Nilsson ! It's Jimmy's latest book and it's great. Well, 'great' is not really the word, it's more a matter of Must Have , it's that good. It's perhaps a bit strange, to hear from me that a DDD/TDD book, which this...

My best friend Jeroen van den Bos has just posted a great article about why Visual Studio should be part of Windows . Jeroen and I share a long history together and as we're both ex- demosceners , I fully understand his reasoning and I wholeheartly agree with his point: make Visual Studio.NET Express...

Brad Abrams blogs: George asks about SP1 of the .NET Framework 2.0... Again the details have not been 100% worked out, so don’t take this as an official statement, but I expect SP1 of the .NET Framework 2.0 to be at the same time as Orcas .NET Framework ships. Well, I don't know about you, but...

Brad Abrams blogs: George asks about SP1 of the .NET Framework 2.0... Again the details have not been 100% worked out, so don’t take this as an official statement, but I expect SP1 of the .NET Framework 2.0 to be at the same time as Orcas .NET Framework ships. Well, I don't know Read More...

Jon Skeet , a C# MVP I greatly respect, has written a great article about The 7 Deadly Sins of Software Development . I personally think every software engineer should simply read it and better: should use the knowledge inside the article in their work next week and beyond!

Normally I don't p1mp blogposts of others here, but for my good friend Sahil Malik I'm happy to make an exception . Sahil will be your instructor for everything ADO.NET 2.0 at the ADO.NET 2.0 boot camp. Read more at his blog . I have no idea what a boot camp is in terms of software development. As an...

According to Soma Somasegar's last post , the following is/isn't supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft's OS which has to replace Windows XP: Visual Basic 6 runtime and IDE . Supported. Visual Studio.NET 2002 . Not supported Visual Studio.NET 2003 . Not supported Visual Studio.NET 2005 . Supported with...

URL: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2006/10/11/647.aspx This video (screencast) for the podcast is on the subject of the Basics of Building Sql Server 2005 CLR Objects The WMV and MP4 (for video iPod users) files are in the feed.