Archives
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Clarius Software Factories Toolkit
The wizards from Clarius released a 'Software Factories Toolkit' to help you building DSL/GAX-based tools.
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Himalia - Model Driven UIs
Himalia looks very very interesting. It's built with Visual Studio DSL tools. It lets you model a UI based on Use Cases, Navigation Models and Presentation Models.
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Amazon EC2 and 'Pay As You Go Applications'
Just in case you never heard of Amazon EC2, go here first.
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Carbonite Backup
Last week my notebook's hard drive failed. All the data was lost. A couple of months before, I've subscribed to an online backup service, Carbonite. I was able to recover all the data I cared for, so that's why I'm recommending it.
Basically, you pay $5/month regardless the space you use.You select the folders you want to back up, and it backs them up silently when you connect to the internet. You can suspend the backup process if you need to use your bandwidth for something else.
Use this link to download a free 15-day trial subscription to Carbonite, and get an extra free month of service when you buy (and 3 months free for myself;) : http://www.carbonite.com/raf/signup.aspx?RAFUserUID=2508&a=0 -
IE7 RC1 can't update Password Protected Feeds
Scott found out that IE and Outlook won't work on authenticated feeds.
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ADO.NET v.next CTP is out
At last, the ADO.NET v.next bits are public!
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Stored Procs vs Dynamic SQL
In DeKlarit's booth at TechEd I had to talk more than I wanted about the famous Stored Procs vs Dynamic SQL debate.
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ADO.NET Entity Framework - It's not just O/R mapping
Pablo Castro re-announced the Entity Framework. The white papers are up again.
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VS Tools for DB Professional - Does it make sense to generate test data?
The new VS for DB Professionals supports generating test data for your data model.
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DAT101 - Microsoft's Data Platform Vision
It was a good session. I totally buy MS's Data Vision.
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DLinQ = LinQ for SQL
OK, it actually happened. We'll have two mapping technologies in .NET v.next.
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Teched - I hate when the are no bags for exhibitors
Is not that I need the bag (and this year's one does not look very good), but we always raffle all the stuff we bring back from TechEd, and the bag is a pretty requested item.
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Chloe saved the Keynote
I went to TechEd Keynote today and I almost got asleep. Then Chloe appeared and it was the only excuse I had to not to leave before it finished.
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SqueezeBox and Pandora
Some time ago I blogged about Pandora. Pandora it's free now, and they've partnered with SlimDevices and you can hear your radio stations using the Squeezebox!
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Boston, here we go
DeKlarit will have a booth in TechEd (5th year in a row), and I'll be there most of the time, so please come and say hi if you are around. We'll be giving away a Squeezebox!
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ADO.NET v.next in TechEd, and DLinq?
If you are interested in ADO.NET Entity Framework, make sure you attend to the following sessions:
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The news are out - ADO.NET 3.0 Entity Framework
It went unnoticed in the PDC, but the news are finally out.
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More Cool Visual Studio Commands
Gaston did it again, and the new VS Cool Commands make my life much easier.
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DeKlarit 4.0 Released - CAB, WSE, VS2005, SQL2005, Layouts & More!
Last week we released DeKlarit 4.0.
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Medium Trust
As I blogged previously we had some issues to make EntLib 2.0 in Medium Trust. It was not the only one.
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EntLib 2.0 and Medium Trust
We needed to make EntLib 2.0 work in medium trust scenarios. Unfortunately, it does not work out of the box. The EntLib team is working on a new build that will fix it, but meanwile I wanted to share what we needed to do.
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MindManager, Requirements and Wikis
I think it's a good idea, but when I was trying it I felt that I was doing something similar to what I do when I start writing ideas on our internal Wiki in the sense that I have a tree of related documents, that can be represented as a set of Wiki pages, and in each leaf there's probably a document describing the feature. In their tool they have a text editor to create it, but it would be much better if it was a Wiki page.
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Microsoft's Template Engine
Microsoft is shipping T4, an ASP-like template engine. It's included in the 'Guidance Automation Extensions' and with the DSL tools package now part of the Visual Studio SDK, so it's free.
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Overriding file contents in an ASP.NET 2.0 application using Virtual Path Providers
After reading Victor's article about Virtual Path Providers I thought it was a very cool technology and that it was possible to do very interesting things with it.
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Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit Workshop in Redmond
Today was the last day of the SC-BAT Workshop in Building 20.