May 2009 Blog Posts
In these series of posts I want to show how easy is to work with Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 3 beta and the NET RIA Service. Prerequisites and tutorials. First of all we need to know what is NET RIA Service and how they can help us to write better business RIA applications. NOTE: Unfortunately NET RIA will NOT work with the beta1 preview of Visual Studio 2010 so I recommend to use them into VS 2008 SP1. Brad Adams and NET RIA Service overview has a very interesting post about the architecture of NET RIA...
VMWare workstation is a very good product for basic virtualizations, like having a personal netowork, implement a testing environment, test new products and/or operating systems. You can download an evaluation version of VMWare Workstation 6.5, available also to support Windows 7 and x64 guest operating system. Windows 7 and NET Framework 4.0 What I love about Microsoft products is the beta experience, that they offer always for free. At this link you can download an available virtual setup of Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2010 and NET Framework 4. After that, in VMWare WRK you can...
In this days I am working hard with LINQ to SQL, that in my opinion is still better then the EF beta 4, for just a couple of fundamental reasons: Better support to the pattern Active Record. Instead of Entity Framework LINQ allows me to draw any kind of relationship from one entity to another one. I can specify which primary key (entity key) i want to use and the designer doesn’t force me to VALIDATE my domain to perfectly reflect the database. Better support to LINQ sintax. ...
After all the rumors came up with Windows 7 RC and the new born Visual Studio 2010 and NET Framework 4.0 is necessary to download and test everything. Unfortunately until today I was using Virtual PC 2007 x64 bit on a hosting Windows Ultimate x64. As you cannot imagine, this is not a 64-bit application. Yes Virtual PC 2007 has just the setup and the drivers for the 64 bit operating system but you cannot install a 64 host, also because it runs like a 32 bit application. At the VMWare website I have found a 30 days...
I have an exiting news today. A couple of days ago, one of my friends David Silverlight asked me about a new project called Silverlight UserGroup Web Starter Kit. At the beginning I was afraid about the free time that I do not have but then I tough “this should be a good way to learn RIA services and EF in depth†… So here we go. This is the codeplex address: http://silverlightugstarter.codeplex.com/ and the project seems to be really cool, especially for the people that are going to work with me. Oh boy, finally I can...
Hi everybody, as you can see I am off again. Unfortunately this time was not for my fault, directly. I had a surgery last week here in Bermuda web site and now I have to stay on the bed for a while, so no PC and no nothing. I can just spend my time for studying for the new certifications I am going to prepare. I will be back soon and I will post a lot of SQL08 and Biztalk news, just wait and stay tuned!