On July 26th, Visual Studio LightSwitch will go live! For more information go to the LightSwitch Developer Center. How to videos can be found here.
Jul
12
2011
Visual Studio LightSwitch goes live on July 26th
Jun
23
2011
May
30
2011
ASP.NET MVC3 trainings videos
Found some nice training videos available from pluralsight about ASP.NET MVC3 at www.asp.net/mvc.
Mar
17
2011
LightSwitch beta 2 available
Since March 17 Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch beta2 is public available. You can download it from the LightSwitch Developer Center. For more information about LightSwitch, read this blog post “Quickly create proffesional-quality business applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch “.
Enjoy!
Mar
14
2011
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 available to everyone
I thought that Visual Studio SP1 was currently only available for MSDN subscribes but watching ‘This week On Channel9‘ with Dan Fernandez and Clint Rutkas, I found out that it was already available for download for everyone. You can download the Visual Studio SP1 Installer here.
Mar
09
2011
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After a busy half year I finally found some time to write a blog post. And todo it more often in the future I installed Windows Live Writer 2011 to make writing blog posts for my ExcellentSoftware.nl Joomla Site much easier.
Although the installation of the Movable Type XML-RPC plugin, the publishing protocol between Live Writer and my Joomla site, went ok, and Live Writer could retrieve the categories and styling from my Joomla site, I wasn’t able to publish a post because of the error “section not found”. After trying a number of solutions from different forums I still got the same error.
Aug
26
2010
LightSwitch beta 1 available
Since August 23 Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch beta1 is available. You can download it from the LightSwitch Developer Center. You can also find videos, tutorials and samples here.
Enjoy!
Aug
04
2010
Quickly create professional-quality business applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch
Today I saw the keynote of Visual Studio LightSwitch. Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new member of the Visual Studio family and allows developers to quickly create professional-quality business applications in a Visual Studio environment.
With Visual Studio LightSwitch, you don’t need to write all the plumbing code to access the data, bind it to controls on the screen, handle validation, keep track of changes and so on and so forth.
From within Visual Studio Light Switch you start building your application by choosing the langauge type you want to use, VB or C#. Then pick the data you need in your application from one or more data sources, like SQL Server, SQL Azure, WCF RIA services and even SharePoint lists. Select one of the available screen templates to display the data on. Select which platform to run the application on, desktop (default) or web browser, and you are ready to run your application.
Visual Studio LightSwitch is build on top of the .NET framework and is highly customizable. It is easy to add custom code and change the layout of the application. One of the nice features is that you can easily aggregate data from different data sources and show it on one screen without any coding. Visual Studio LightSwitch uses ms deploy to help you deploy your application.
I can’t wait to get my hands on the beta which comes available on August 23.
For more information visit the Visual Studio LightSwitch site and this introduction video of Jay Schmezler at channel9.
Jul
05
2010
AutoMapper, an object to object mapper
Last week I saw a video of Scott Hanselman at the DevDays 2010 where he explained ASP.NET MVC 2. During his presentation he mentioned a utility called AutoMapper where he is very enthusiastic about.
AutoMapper is an object to object mapper and after reading the documentation about it I also got enthusiastic about it.
AutoMappertakes the boring work out of your hands of copying the property values from one object to another which is often the case between the boundaries of layers. Think of domain entities to data contracts in case of services and domain entities to view model objects in presentation layers.
AutoMapper is open source and can be found on CodePlex. There is also a video available here.
Enjoy!
Apr
12
2010
