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Mindscape releases version 3 of WPF control suite

published 1047 days, 1 hour, 59 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1050 days, 21 hours, 28 minutes ago

WPF Elements 3.0 has been released and is the amalgamation of three products - WPF Elements 2, WPF Property Grid and 5 beautiful WPF Themes. New controls such as a scheduler, rich text toolbar, sliders, and many more have been included along with many new samples for developers to learn from. Grab WPF Elements 3.0 and build something awesome today! (more)

category: UX | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: WPF, WPFPropertyGrid, Scheduler, Mindscape

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Working with large domain models in LightSpeed 3.1 – Part 1

published 1118 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1120 days, 19 hours, 17 minutes ago

Many people like to use visual designers to create domain models for a number of reasons: they save you writing boilerplate code, they make it very easy to see how entities relate to each other, and so on. However, when models become large, the visual representation can be hard to understand — here's part one in how LightSpeed helps developers not get bogged down by a large domain model. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: Visual Studio 2010, LightSpeed, Visual Studio 2008

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Mindscape's ORM, LightSpeed 3.1 has been released

published 1122 days, 8 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1122 days, 17 hours, 44 minutes ago

LightSpeed 3.1 has been released and includes VS2010 designer support along with a slew of many new capabilities - the ability to link models together across several model design files (no more huge messy models, logically group them across files), support for saved designer views, core support for Class table inheritance, T4 code generation support, and a whole heap more to help developers deliver faster. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: Visual Studio 2010, LightSpeed, Mindscape, Visual Studio 2008

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Released: Mindscape Silverlight Elements 1.1

published 1126 days, 9 hours, 14 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1127 days, 13 hours, 42 minutes ago

Mindscape have released Silverlight Elements 1.1 - bringing the control suite up to 14 Silverlight controls that work with both Silverlight 3 and 4. Sliders, split buttons, outlook styled controls, updated themes, sliders, range selectors and more join the existing line up of a Silverlight HTML Editor, Scheduler, Color pickers and more. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: Silverlight, Silverlight 3, Silverlight 4, Mindscape

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Top 5 .NET Developer Tools You Likely Never Heard Of

published 1149 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1150 days, 18 hours, 29 minutes ago

Everybody loves lists of tools. Scott Hanselman’s annual list of Windows tools has been immensely popular over the years and has opened my eyes to a bunch of new tools. The topic of tools has also been the subject of some very popular books, such as Windows Developer Power Tools and Java Power Tools. Here are 5 you may not know about! (more)

category: How To | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: www.beckshome.com

tags: PAL, DTM Data Generator, LightSpeed, Badboy, Silverlight Spy

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Mindscape releases VS2010 designer for LINQ to SharePoint 2010

published 1154 days, 10 hours, 27 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1154 days, 21 hours, 46 minutes ago

SharePoint 2010 was released today and one great new feature is LINQ to SharePoint. Unfortunately, working with LINQ to SharePoint involves command line tools and XML configuration. Mindscape Visual Tools for SharePoint provides a VS2010 integrated designer to drag and drop and manage the objects you wish to query. This post talks about the features and offers the first 50 sign ups a FREE copy of the product. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: SharePoint 2010, Linq, Sharepoint, Mindscape

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Working with T4 templates and LightSpeed

published 1162 days, 10 hours, 2 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1163 days, 23 hours, 34 minutes ago

Ivan explains how developers can use the T4 templating engine that is part of Visual Studio to create their own code generated classes for LightSpeed entities. LightSpeed uses Velocity templates by default but with T4 getting more interest recently this is a welcome addition to the framework. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: T4, T4 Templates, LightSpeed, Mindscape

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Silverlight: Working with Mindscape's Silverlight scheduler control

published 1169 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1169 days, 23 hours, 39 minutes ago

An overview of working with the recently released Silverlight Scheduler control included with Mindscape Silverlight Elements. The scheduler control allows developers to create rich Outlook-style scheduling solutions in Silverlight quickly and easily. This post examines some of the key interaction points with the product. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: Silverlight, Scheduler, Mindscape

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Silverlight: Creating a custom PaletteColorPicker style with Silverlight Elements

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traskjd 1169 days, 23 hours, 42 minutes ago

A look at how to create a custom style for the Silverlight PaletteColorPicker control included in Mindscape Silverlight Elements. The PaletteColorPicker allows users to select colors from a pre-defined palette. The styles we have provided for this control are similar to the basic color picker seen in Microsoft Office. Here's how to restyle it to look however you want. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: Silverlight, Style, Mindscape

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Mindscape Silverlight Elements - Silverlight HTML Editor, Scheduler and more

published 1177 days, 10 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1178 days, 54 minutes ago

Mindscape have released their Silverlight control suite to help developers create rich internet applications quickly and easily. Included is an HTML editor, scheduler, time pickers, color pickers, coverflow, ListView, TreeListView and 5 Silverlight themes. A free trial is available to test out (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: Silverlight, Silverlight 3, Mindscape

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LightSpeed and LINQPad: the perfect partners

published 1204 days, 10 hours, 5 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1206 days, 19 hours, 14 minutes ago

Today Mindscape released a LINQPad driver for LightSpeed 3.0. This extends LINQPad and allows developers to run LINQ Queries against LightSpeed models which, in turn, allows querying against SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Amazon's SimpleDB, MySQL, SQLite, VistaDB, SQL Azure and DB2! (more)

category: Data | clicked: 6 | 1 comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: LinqPad, PostgreSQL, SQL Azure, Oracle, LightSpeed, SimpleDB

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The dynamic duo: LightSpeed & Azure

published 1252 days, 8 hours, 41 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1253 days, 19 hours, 26 minutes ago

Describes how LightSpeed and the Windows Azure platform work happily together with details on running LightSpeed based web/worker roles with the Azure partial trust policy. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: LightSpeed, Linq, Mindscape, Azure

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Screencast: Getting started with LightSpeed

published 1255 days, 8 hours, 51 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1256 days, 13 hours, 44 minutes ago

This screencast shows you how to get started with LightSpeed by explaining how to setup your first domain model, context and unit of work. This screencast has been released for the recent release of LightSpeed 3.0. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: Unit of Work, LightSpeed, Screencast, Mindscape

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Lightspeed 3 : Testing Enhancements - Paul Mason

published 1281 days, 11 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by

tivit 1281 days, 22 hours, 2 minutes ago

In this post I'm going for a bit of a diversion from the usual Protecting Your Precious Code series; and for good reason! The long awaited version 3 of the Lightspeed tool was released on Monday. Rather than go into all of the new features that it boasts (which can be found on the Mindscape blog), I'm going to take a look at a particular aspect that excites me: improved testability of entities! (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blog.paul-mason.co.nz

tags: Testing, LightSpeed, Autofac

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Mindscape LightSpeed 3 domain modeling and persistence framework

published 1282 days, 9 hours, 52 minutes ago posted by

http://vistadb.myopenid.com/ 1283 days, 22 hours, 43 minutes ago

Mindscape has announced a new version of their dot net ORM tool named Mindscape LightSpeed 3. Version 3 includes support for VistaDB 4 and a lot of other new features. Priced at only $199 per developer (source is available for an extra fee) LightSpeed is a very cost effective tool to add to any developers tool belt. There is also a free version available for databases with less than eight tables if you just want to take the product for a test drive. We recently spoke with John-Daniel Trask of Minds... (more)

category: Data | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.vistadb.net

tags: VistaDB, Visual Studio, Database, LightSpeed, ORM

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Mindscape LightSpeed 3.0 Released!

published 1282 days, 9 hours, 52 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1283 days, 20 hours, 42 minutes ago

Mindscape have released LightSpeed 3.0 - the third version of their .NET O/R Mapper with Visual Studio Integration. LightSpeed 3.0 includes a new migrations framework baked into the visual designer to save developers writing SQL schema migrations, improved querying and LINQ capabilities, testing enhancements and much more. (more)

category: How To | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: LightSpeed, Linq, ORM, migrations, Mindscape

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Mindscape WPF Themes released

published 1284 days, 5 hours, 44 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 1287 days, 17 hours, 53 minutes ago

Mindscape have released a suite of WPF themes to help developers deliver attractive applications faster than ever before. All source code is included so that UI tweaks can be made to create your own style or leave them as they are to have an Office 2007 style or Expression Blend look and feel. (more)

category: UX | clicked: 5 | comment | | source: www.mindscape.co.nz

tags: Themes, Skinning, WPF, Mindscape

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Mindscape releases version 3 of WPF control suite

Working with large domain models in LightSpeed 3.1 – Part 1

Mindscape's ORM, LightSpeed 3.1 has been released

Released: Mindscape Silverlight Elements 1.1

Top 5 .NET Developer Tools You Likely Never Heard Of

Mindscape releases VS2010 designer for LINQ to SharePoint 2010

Working with T4 templates and LightSpeed

Silverlight: Working with Mindscape's Silverlight scheduler control

Silverlight: Creating a custom PaletteColorPicker style with Silverlight Elements

Mindscape Silverlight Elements - Silverlight HTML Editor, Scheduler and more

LightSpeed and LINQPad: the perfect partners

The dynamic duo: LightSpeed & Azure

Screencast: Getting started with LightSpeed

Lightspeed 3 : Testing Enhancements - Paul Mason

Mindscape LightSpeed 3 domain modeling and persistence framework

Mindscape LightSpeed 3.0 Released!

Mindscape WPF Themes released

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