The discussion, about what constitutes OSS and not, have been going on on Twitter and the .NET blogosphere for a couple of weeks now. The root of it all has been whether or not Microsoft should call their work with ASP.NET MVC as open-source or not. Reading what has been said and taking part in [...]
Entity Framework 5 beta is now available on nuget. EF5 includes many long awaited features which were dependent on the .NET framework 4.5 such as Spatial Data types, Enum support and Table-Valued functions. EF5 also includes significant performance improvements. You will need Visual Studio 11 in order to work with EF5, however EF 4.3.1 was [...]
A while ago, my colleague Wouter recommended this book titled Just for Fun – The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary written by Linus Torvalds. The author needs no further introduction as he’s well known as the initiator of the Linux kernel and the most excellent Git revision control system. I immediately ordered myself a copy [...]
TL;DR A couple of days ago we (finally) managed to get v0.10.0 out of the door and it’s packed of goodies! Diagnostics, razor improvements, bug fixes, weighted request headers, model validation and lots of tweaks to existing features are only a couple of things that went into this release. The community continue to bless us [...]
If you are coming to this series of posts for the first time you might check out my introductory post for a little context. NOTE: this project is one I created and as it turns out this has now become it’s introductory post. The SpecificationExtensions.[MSTest | NUnit | Xunit] are a set of NuGet packages [...]
The Extended WPF Toolkit started with three controls and a vision. It has grown into a feature packed control suite with over 30 controls. Some of which do not even exist in other third party component vendors. It has been featured at Open Source Fest at MIX11, discussed on .NET Rocks, covered by the Coding4fun [...]
A couple of weeks ago I finished reading The Unix Programming Environment, written by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike. The main reason that I picked up this classic book was to learn more about the fundamentals of Unix. I must say that this book is an excellent guide to start learning more about this [...]
If you are coming to this series of posts for the first time you might check out my introductory post for a little context. NOTE: this project is one I created and as it turns out this has now become it’s introductory post. EventAggregator.Net is a single C# file that can provide a basis for [...]
When people do something for so long they get comfortable. There is a nice fuzzy feeling you get when you can somewhat expect the events of your day. Especially in this economy. That somewhat happened to me. I have been writing WPF and Silverlight LOB applications for the construction and engineering industry for a long [...]
If you are coming to this series of posts for the first time you might check out my introductory post for a little context. NOTE: this project is one I created and as it turns out this has now become its introductory post. DumpToText is a single C# extension I wrote a little while back. [...]
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