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Mindscape NHibernate Designer 2 Released

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traskjd 577 days, 14 hours, 34 minutes ago

Mindscape have released the second major version of their Visual Studio 2010 integrated NHiberate model designer. Key new features include integrated visual schema migrations, fluent NHibernate code generation, improved configuration and getting started wizards, and many other smaller improvements to make NHibernate development easier. The designer is free for small models. (more)

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tags: Visual Studio 2010, Fluent NHibernate, NHibernate, migrations, Mindscape

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Web Workbench 2.0 – Faster, Minification and Pro

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traskjd 586 days, 16 hours, 24 minutes ago

Version 2 of the Mindscape Web Workbench has shipped and it includes a bunch of new improvements! Version 2 includes the super speedy Google V8 JavaScript engine to make dealing with large CoffeeScript files much easier, improvements to intellisense and new pro options such as minification and less compilation. Add this tool to your Visual Studio 2010 toolbox to start coding websites with ninja tools! (more)

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tags: Less, Extension Manager, Sass, VS2010, CoffeeScript, Mindscape

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Mindscape Blog » Blog Archive » F# type providers – as if by magic…

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traskjd 607 days, 18 hours, 20 minutes ago

This post dives into one of the very cool new features that has emerged in the first drop of F# 3.0 that shipped with Visual Studio 2011 preview 1. Type providers in F# eliminate tedious boilerplate code by enabling users to create whole classes in a single line of code. (more)

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tags: 3, Type Providers, F#, BeardOfKnowledge, Mindscape

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Mindscape outlines road map for NHibernate Designer 2

published 653 days, 38 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 654 days, 10 hours, 17 minutes ago

Mindscape has posted the planned road map for the second major release of their Visual Studio 2010 integrated NHibernate Designer. (more)

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tags: Designer, NHibernate, VS2010, Mindscape

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Polyglot programming - combining functional, dynamic and imperative languages

published 664 days, 22 hours, 18 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 667 days, 18 hours, 44 minutes ago

A blog post from Mindscape about the development experience of creating the Web Workbench product for Sass, Less and CoffeeScript in Visual Studio 2010. Like most .NET projects, it contains a fair chunk of C#. But quite a bit of the core is written in F#, and it also invokes a large amount of external Ruby and JavaScript code. While using all these languages definitely made it far easier to develop the product, it did also throw up a few challenges and surprises. This post looks at those challenges and s... (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 20 | 1 comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: .NET, C#, Less, Sass, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, F#, Mindscape

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Sass, Less and CoffeeScript for Visual Studio 2010

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traskjd 670 days, 12 hours, 10 minutes ago

Mindscape have released a 100% free Visual Studio extension that adds support for Sass, Less and CoffeeScript. Making this extension even more powerful is that it includes syntax highlighting, output generation, intellisense, go to definition and much more! Be up and running in with these technologies in Visual Studio in no time! (more)

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tags: Less, Sass, Visual Studio, Extension, CoffeeScript, Mindscape

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LightSpeed 4.0 .NET ORM Released!

published 685 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 689 days, 11 hours, 25 minutes ago

The LightSpeed 4.0 ORM has been released and features distributed application support so you can work transparently with entities across a network, and Web enhancements that simplify development and encapsulate best practices in ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC. A huge new user guide and entirely new samples, packed with guidance not just on how to use LightSpeed but also on the best way to work with it in different environments. There is also a new metadata API, auditing capabilities and much much more. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 46 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: LightSpeed, WCF, Linq, ORM, Mindscape

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Creating custom node styles for WPF Diagrams

published 717 days, 14 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 718 days, 16 hours, 57 minutes ago

This article discusses how developer can use the Mindscape WPF Diagrams product to create an custom diagram with custom node types. Customizing node types can mean creating normal diagram nodes, but it could be that developers want to build any type of composed surface - a Visual Studio style window designer, visual DSL tools, and anything else you can imagine. This article gets users started on the road to customization. (more)

category: UX | clicked: 15 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: visual, Diagram, WPF, Mindscape

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Mindscape releases WPF Diagrams 2.0

published 743 days, 23 hours, 31 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 745 days, 8 hours, 16 minutes ago

Mindscape WPF Diagrams 2.0 has been released and adds to the existing product by adding 80+ new shapes out of the box, absolute positioned diagrams, improved toolbox and much more. But it's not all about features - it's about providing a way for developers to easily create 'WOW' experiences for their end users and WPF Diagrams does just that. (more)

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tags: Diagram, WPF, Flow Diagram, XAML, Shapes, Mindscape

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Crazy delicious: defining LightSpeed entities at runtime

published 759 days, 19 hours, 28 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 760 days, 20 hours, 56 minutes ago

This post looks at creating entities definitions at runtime in your applications: "Ever since JD unleashed LightSpeed.MetaData on an unsuspecting world, we’ve been inundated by people asking about the possibility of declaring entities at run-time, for example to reflect a database schema that can be modified or extended by users, or to allow common batch actions to be applied to different databases without having to build explicit models for every database." (more)

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tags: entities, LightSpeed, Mindscape

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Mindscape giving away 1000 licenses of WP7 Controls

published 794 days, 20 hours, 51 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 797 days, 22 hours, 29 minutes ago

To celebrate the launch of their WP7 control suite Mindscape are giving away $300k worth of licenses to developers for free. Included in the suite is 20 controls to make WP7 development easier: A high performance and diverse charting library, looping list boxes, color selectors, date & time pickers, gauge and a gesture library are all included. Be quick! (more)

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tags: Windows Phone 7, WP7, phone, Windows Phone 7 Development Tools, Mindscape

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Mindscape releases WP7 Control Suite

published 804 days, 21 hours, 34 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 808 days, 15 hours, 8 minutes ago

Mindscape have released an extensive control suite for Windows Phone 7 developers. Included is a high performance charting suite of 14 chart types along with standard controls such as time pickers, date pickers, color pickers and much more. This post announces the release and provides a giveaway to get a free license. (more)

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tags: Windows Phone 7, WP7, Windows Phone, Charts, Mindscape

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Intro to F#: First-class functions in F#, part 0

published 813 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 815 days, 20 hours, 11 minutes ago

Have you started looking at F# yet now that it ships with Visual Studio 2010? This post takes a look at the fundamental differences between functions in F# and how delegates work in C#/VB. By the end of this post you'll see why functions are first class in F# and are not in C#/VB and be on your way to better understanding F#. (more)

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tags: functions, F#, Mindscape

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Mindscape releases Free WPF Controls

published 822 days, 21 hours, 13 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 823 days, 8 hours, 9 minutes ago

Mindscape have released a set of WPF controls that are completely free for developers to work with: WPF Coverflow control for beautiful data presentation. WPF Autocomplete Textbox for slick user interaction and the WPF Prompt Decorator to really make user interaction crystal clear. These controls can be distributed royalty free and fully supported by Mindscape. (more)

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tags: WPF, Coverflow, Autocomplete, Free, Mindscape

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WPF Elements 4 released by Mindscape

published 835 days, 23 hours, 14 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 836 days, 17 hours, 19 minutes ago

WPF Elements 4 has been released - 35+ WPF controls including a range of great new charting components. Get everything in one collection: Charting, line of business controls, themes - everything to make your WPF applications great. Support for many different chart types is now included along with a strong focus on performance - charts with millions of data points can be handled without breaking a sweat. (more)

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tags: Performance, WPF, Charts, Mindscape

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Mindscape releases Free Silverlight controls

published 835 days, 23 hours, 14 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 837 days, 14 hours, 24 minutes ago

Mindscape has released three Silverlight controls free of charge for developers to work with! The Book control which allows for beautifully animated page turning, virtualized pages, pagination and custom content. Their Coveflow control for representing visual data in an elegant manner for end users and their Expander control for making it easier to free up valuable UI space by collapsing elements away. This post digs into the controls more and gives a link to download them now. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 3 | 1 comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: Silverlight, Book, Coverflow, Expander, Free, controls, Mindscape

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5 features you didn't know existed in the LightSpeed ORM Designer

published 838 days, 3 hours, 7 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 838 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes ago

The LightSpeed Designer is the most powerful domain modelling surface for Visual Studio but that sometimes means users don't uncover some of the goodies baked into it. This post takes a look at 5 often overlooked features of the designer that can make .NET development easier and more enjoyable. (more)

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tags: Visual Studio, LightSpeed, Linq, ORM, Mindscape

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Efficient entity data loading with named aggregates

published 849 days, 9 hours, 7 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 850 days, 16 hours, 34 minutes ago

Controlling when and how much data is loaded is something developers have to keep in mind when building any modern data driven application. This blog post looks at an advanced feature in LightSpeed that helps hand the power back to developers: named aggregates. Dive deep into how you can make your applications blazingly fast! (more)

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tags: Named Aggregates, LightSpeed, Linq, Mindscape

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Mindscape releases LightSpeed 4 beta

published 856 days, 8 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 858 days, 17 hours, 46 minutes ago

Mindscape has release LightSpeed 4 beta for customers to start testing with. The big improvements in LightSpeed 4 focus on improving distributed solutions and allowing LightSpeed to make working with large scale distributed solutions easier. Along with the core distributed entities improvements, support for RIA Services, DTO improvements and many other new features will be making their way out to customers as part of the nightly builds for LightSpeed 4 Beta over the coming weeks. (more)

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tags: RIA Services, Beta, LightSpeed, Linq, Mindscape

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Migrating a standard ASP.NET Website to N2CMS on EC2

published 883 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 885 days, 16 hours, 54 minutes ago

This post reviews a recent site migration that Mindscape undertook - moving from a standard ASP.NET solution to the great N2CMS open source CMS using ASP.NET MVC. It looks at the challenges and solutions that were found as part of the migration to make it smooth and improve site performance for website visitors. (more)

category: Web Dev | clicked: 5 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: EC2, N2CMS, MVC, Mindscape, ASP.NET

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Mindscape NHibernate Designer 2 Released

Web Workbench 2.0 – Faster, Minification and Pro

Mindscape Blog » Blog Archive » F# type providers – as if by magic…

Mindscape outlines road map for NHibernate Designer 2

Polyglot programming - combining functional, dynamic and imperative languages

Sass, Less and CoffeeScript for Visual Studio 2010

LightSpeed 4.0 .NET ORM Released!

Creating custom node styles for WPF Diagrams

Mindscape releases WPF Diagrams 2.0

Crazy delicious: defining LightSpeed entities at runtime

Mindscape giving away 1000 licenses of WP7 Controls

Mindscape releases WP7 Control Suite

Intro to F#: First-class functions in F#, part 0

Mindscape releases Free WPF Controls

WPF Elements 4 released by Mindscape

Mindscape releases Free Silverlight controls

5 features you didn't know existed in the LightSpeed ORM Designer

Efficient entity data loading with named aggregates

Mindscape releases LightSpeed 4 beta

Migrating a standard ASP.NET Website to N2CMS on EC2

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