Erik Meijer and team (developer Wes Dyer, in particular) have created a profound and beautiful .NET library that will take managed event based programming to new levels. Of course, many of you wish that you could write LINQ expressions over events. Well, now you can thanks to Erik’s and Wes …
Interview with Eric Nelson who was speaking at DevWeek 2009 in London in March. He touches on which Microsoft ORM is strategic, runtime vs design time of V1, Entity Framework is the Marmite of ORMs, alternative design surfaces, what to expect from V2 and more.
This in depth session will penetrate the advantage of using dynamically created code in your applications. Yesterday we coded the creation of object instances our selves in each location that we needed them with strong references between our code modules. Maintenance in this code base was a nightmare and modular …
A benefit of the MVC architectural style is that it promotes a clean separation of concerns between the models, views and controllers within an application. Come learn what MVC is and why you’d want to use it with ASP.NET. We’ll build a web application from scratch and explore the differences …
Sam Guckenheimer has been the chief customer advocate for VSTS, responsible for its end-to-end external design. He describes his book, Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, as a framework for thinking about software projects in a way that can be directly tooled by VSTS. It presents essential theory …
Ted demonstrates how his private MacBook uses Grails to connect to a MS SQL server using the new JDBC 4 driver for MS SQL. We thought we give this some extra footage. Ted demonstrates the Northwind database and scaffolded UI for these tables based on newly created domain classes.
