One of the tools that I’ve installed recently and use daily is the Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools. I was introduced to the Productivity Power Tools while attending the Miami Users Group a month ago. Three team members from the Visual Studio team (Sean Laberee, Adrian “Spotty” Bowles and Prakash Balasubramanian) presented that night(…)
This year I was able to attend Microsoft’s PDC 2008. There were tons of fantastic sessions that I was unable to attend. One of the great things that Microsoft did with the PDC this year was to make the session videos available to everyone within twenty-four hours of the presentation. That’s great but what if(…)
As I mentioned in my previous post I’m in the middle of moving a blog from MSN Spaces to my Community Server site. Of course there were some issues to resolve. You first need to turn on e-mail publishing for your MSN Spaces blog. You cannot use the MetaWeblog API without it. You can turn it on by following the steps(…)
I see that you’ve found my new technical blog. Welcome. Just so you know I’m using Community Server 2.0 as the software for this blog. I have loaded all of the posts in the Tech category on my personal blog at www.jorriss.com on this site. To do this I was able hook into the Community(…)
For almost four years I’ve been using Rockford Lhotka’s CSLA. CSLA or the Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture is a framework to build business objects. It’s a powerful architecture that provides many different features for middle-ware objects (automating validation logic, n-level undo, and databinding support just to name a few). Personally, I wouldn’t start an application without(…)
Somehow I missed this. I use the Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture (CSLA) to build business objects. We also use CodeSmith for object generation. Developer Cole Shelton has created a CSLA Object Generator that use CodeSmith on the backend to generate business objects. The generator allows you to create multiple objects and you can base your(…)
Channel9 has been busy recently posting some really great videos. Here’s some highlights. Click and enjoy. Iain McDonald – What’s the secret to being a good leader?Boyd Multerer – The best developerStewart Tansley – Robot Building ClubLarry Hryb – Meet Major Nelson of Xbox LiveRich Davies – Smart Personal Objects TechnologyPeter Wengert – Inside Microsoft(…)