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...

A couple of days ago, the community learned that Jamie Cansdale , creator of Testdriven.NET wasn't re-nominated for the MVP title. As an explanation from Microsoft , he received a vague email that in the past year, he apparently didn't do enough for the community to get the award, and also apparently...