April 2009 Entries
Anyone that is working frequently with either LINQ to SQL or the Entity Framework needs to go get a copy of the Huagati DBML/EDMX tools. They plug right into Visual Studio (2008) and allow you to perform many of the tasks that you would think VS would do for you. I just recently had a new dev db get corrupted. I had no backups for it. I also had no scripts generated for it. Argh! What to do? With this tool I was able to reverse engineer my EDMX file and spit out all the SQL I needed to generate...
The developer of StructureMap (Jeremey Miller) posted a great article (to defend the product) regarding the use of StructureMap outside of the ObjectFactory: http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2008/09/10/using-the-structuremap-container-independently-of-objectfactory.aspx
I have been working on a project for the past year or so. This project was originally decided to be implemented in a BizTalk environment. Although most of us were new to this form of SOA development we went ahead with the understanding that we would eventually learn enough to stand up, manage, and develop for BizTalk. With this in mind we developed our entire application in such a way that we thought the app would simply plug in to the BizTalk environment (from an orchestration point of view any ways). Some of the reasons that we decided to...
I was scooting about the net the other day and landed on someone’s site that had the most fascinating tag cloud I have seen so far. The tags in this cloud revolve as though they are in a 3d sphere. When you mouse over the sphere you can move the words up down and around. Very interesting. This is a flash based control that you can feed with an XML file. Also, the source for it is readily available which makes it a tool that can be ported to just about any tab based platform. Very nice! See the home...