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5 reasons not to use a micro ORM

published 560 days, 16 hours, 4 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 563 days, 12 hours, 32 minutes ago

There's great reasons to sometimes work with a micro ORM, but what are 5 reasons when you wouldn't choose to use one in your application? (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 36 | 1 comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: ORM

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Reflection, performance and runtime code generation

published 566 days, 6 hours, 19 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 570 days, 17 hours, 47 minutes ago

Most .NET developers know about the power of working with Reflection, but when performance becomes an issue what can we do? This post examines the performance benefits of using runtime code generation while noting some of the limitations. This post will give you everything you need to know about choosing between different techniques and when it's right to choose one over the others. (more)

category: How To | clicked: 26 | 1 comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: Expression Tree, Code Generation, Reflection, CSharp, Mindscape

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In bed with Roslyn - extending C# syntax

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traskjd 608 days, 18 hours, 53 minutes ago

Microsoft have been talking about their “C# compiler as a service” project, aka Roslyn, for a couple of years now, and yesterday the C# team finally released a preview version. This post dives in to some of what Roslyn can help developers deliver, demonstrating how to extend the C# syntax to reduce boiler plate code for creating Dependency Properties. Far from being all you can do, this post only scratches the surface of what will be possible! (more)

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tags: Roslyn, C#, Bearded Goodness, Mindscape

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Mindscape NHibernate Designer 2 Released

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traskjd 609 days, 14 hours, 29 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 618 days, 16 hours, 20 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 639 days, 18 hours, 16 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 685 days, 33 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 686 days, 10 hours, 12 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 696 days, 22 hours, 14 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 699 days, 18 hours, 40 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 702 days, 12 hours, 6 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 717 days, 12 hours, 16 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 721 days, 11 hours, 21 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

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traskjd 750 days, 16 hours, 53 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 775 days, 23 hours, 27 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 777 days, 8 hours, 12 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)

category: UX | clicked: 1 | 4 comments | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

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

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Dynamic repositories with LightSpeed - taking dynamic to the next level

published 782 days, 5 hours, 19 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 784 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes ago

Ready to think outside the box with the C# dynamic keyword? This post looks at taking the c# dynamic keyword and seeing how much boiler plate code we can get rid of. You'll learn how to take the Repository pattern where developers write a lot of GetFooByName, GetBarByEmailAddress type methods and how to get rid of them - gone, history, finished! Then there's Named Parameters - this post starts looking at how to use them for querying. By the end of this post you'll have a whole new way of looking at thing... (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: Repository, dynamic, LightSpeed

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Json.NET 4.0 Release 2 – NuGet 1.2 and Dynamic - James Newton-King

published 785 days, 22 hours, 27 minutes ago posted by

iftekharahmedamit 790 days, 2 hours, 51 minutes ago

NuGet is fast becoming the preferred way to install libraries in .NET. NuGet 1.2 was recently released and among other improvements it adds support for the Windows Phone. Json.NET 4.0 Release 2 has been updated to support NuGet 1.2 and Windows Phone – there is nothing you need to do, it should just work. Windows Phone brings Json.NET’s NuGet support up to 7 different frameworks:.NET 4 .NET 4 Client... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: james.newtonking.com

tags: JSON, Json.NET 4.0, Dynamic Support, NuGet

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Crazy delicious: defining LightSpeed entities at runtime

published 791 days, 19 hours, 24 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 792 days, 20 hours, 52 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)

category: How To | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: entities, LightSpeed, Mindscape

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Mindscape giving away 1000 licenses of WP7 Controls

published 826 days, 20 hours, 46 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 829 days, 22 hours, 25 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)

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

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

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Mindscape releases WP7 Control Suite

published 836 days, 21 hours, 30 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 840 days, 15 hours, 3 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)

category: UX | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

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

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

published 845 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 847 days, 20 hours, 6 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)

category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: functions, F#, Mindscape

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Mindscape releases Free WPF Controls

published 854 days, 21 hours, 9 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 855 days, 8 hours, 5 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)

category: UX | clicked: 7 | 1 comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: WPF, Coverflow, Autocomplete, Free, Mindscape

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WPF Elements 4 released by Mindscape

published 867 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 868 days, 17 hours, 15 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)

category: UX | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: Performance, WPF, Charts, Mindscape

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traskjd

5 reasons not to use a micro ORM

Reflection, performance and runtime code generation

In bed with Roslyn - extending C# syntax

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

Dynamic repositories with LightSpeed - taking dynamic to the next level

Json.NET 4.0 Release 2 – NuGet 1.2 and Dynamic - James Newton-King

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

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