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Name:	QuantumNightmare
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Metro Elements – Amazing new financial charts for Windows Store apps

published 155 days, 8 hours, 12 minutes ago posted by

hilarycook 165 days, 7 hours, 18 minutes ago

Callum from Mindscape talks about the awesome chart controls available in the Metro Elements control suite for Win8 apps. Data display in your Windows Store apps will look professional and stunning. (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 59 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

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Mindscape Blog » Blog Archive » Web Workbench 3.0 released

published 462 days, 21 hours, 45 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 464 days, 14 hours, 44 minutes ago

Mindscape have released version 3 of their popular Web Workbench product. Version 3 introduces entirely asynchronous compilation meaning no more waiting for large files to compile. A new visual settings dialog has been introduced to make configuring minification, compilation and compiler settings more easy. Along with these key new features there's plenty of small new improvements that will really make working with Sass, Less or CoffeeScript in .NET a pleasure - this post dives into more detail about the... (more)

category: UX | clicked: 37 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: Less, Sass, Web Workbench, CoffeeScript, Mindscape

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Caliburn Micro: More About Events and Parameters (part 3)

published 481 days, 9 hours, 36 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 486 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes ago

Caliburn Micro is a fantastic MVVM framework for XAML developers (WPF, Silverlight, WP7) and in this post more advanced eventing with parameters is discussed. This is the third post in a series (older posts linked to in the article) but it is designed for developers who may not have worked with Caliburn Micro in the past. You'll discover how easy it is to get started and what power Caliburn Micro provides to XAML developers. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 83 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: Silverlight, WP7, Caliburn Micro, WPF, XAML, Mindscape

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Getting started with the Caliburn Micro MVVM framework

published 496 days, 6 hours, 24 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 498 days, 15 hours, 59 minutes ago

This post explores getting up and running with Caliburn Micro at the core of your application for managing MVVM plumbing code. This series will walk through step by step showing developers what code is required, what conventions exist and how to make the most of Caliburn Micro to build better applications. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 53 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: Silverlight, WP7, Caliburn Micro, WPF, Mindscape

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WPF MVVM Dashboard Sample

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traskjd 501 days, 17 hours, 54 minutes ago

Mindscape have released a new WPF sample as part of WPF Elements which shows how to build a beautiful, highly interactive and super responsive dashboard when working with Caliburn Micro and WPF Elements. The sample includes how to do data drill down, user friendly date selection and much more. (more)

category: UX | clicked: 103 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

tags: dashboard, Caliburn Micro, WPF, Caliburn, XAML, controls, Mindscape

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5 reasons not to use a micro ORM

published 534 days, 13 hours, 52 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 537 days, 10 hours, 19 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 540 days, 4 hours, 7 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 544 days, 15 hours, 35 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 582 days, 16 hours, 41 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)

category: How To | clicked: 19 | comment | | source: www.mindscapehq.com

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tags: Roslyn, C#, Bearded Goodness, Mindscape

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Polyglot programming - combining functional, dynamic and imperative languages

published 670 days, 20 hours, 2 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 673 days, 16 hours, 28 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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LightSpeed 4.0 .NET ORM Released!

published 691 days, 10 hours, 4 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 695 days, 9 hours, 9 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 723 days, 12 hours, 27 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 724 days, 14 hours, 41 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 749 days, 21 hours, 15 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 751 days, 6 hours 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 756 days, 3 hours, 6 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 758 days, 19 hours, 19 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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Crazy delicious: defining LightSpeed entities at runtime

published 765 days, 17 hours, 11 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 766 days, 18 hours, 40 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 800 days, 18 hours, 34 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 803 days, 20 hours, 13 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 810 days, 19 hours, 18 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 814 days, 12 hours, 51 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 819 days, 19 hours, 24 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 821 days, 17 hours, 54 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 828 days, 18 hours, 57 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 829 days, 5 hours, 53 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 841 days, 20 hours, 57 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 842 days, 15 hours, 3 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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Mindscape releases Free Silverlight controls

published 841 days, 20 hours, 57 minutes ago posted by

traskjd 843 days, 12 hours, 8 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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QuantumNightmare

Metro Elements – Amazing new financial charts for Windows Store apps

Mindscape Blog » Blog Archive » Web Workbench 3.0 released

Caliburn Micro: More About Events and Parameters (part 3)

Getting started with the Caliburn Micro MVVM framework

WPF MVVM Dashboard Sample

5 reasons not to use a micro ORM

Reflection, performance and runtime code generation

In bed with Roslyn - extending C# syntax

Polyglot programming - combining functional, dynamic and imperative languages

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

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

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