I'm not going to write a very long story about the DotNED meeting last Thursday, other than that it was great!. . Due to time restrictions I only had half an hour for the presentation and the demonstration of LLBLGen Pro, which was too short for me to explain a lot about O/R mapping, its details and how it works in practise, though I hope...

After 4 months of development and 2 months of beta-testing, it's finally done: LLBLGen Pro v1.0.2004.2 has been released! Below is the full list of changes and new features. Of course, this upgrade is free for customers. Drivers Changed SqlServer / Oracle drivers now shows a stored procedure selector form if the preference...

Over a 100 MVP's have signed an online petition to make Microsoft migrate the behemoth Visual Basic 6 (VB6) to VS.NET and let it live on as an unmanaged language. More information can be found here: http://rblevin.blogspot.com/2005/03/microsoft-mvps-revolt.html I wrote a fair amount of VB5 and VB6 COM objects for MTS and COM+ utilizing systems,...

I normally don't do this, but as it's LLBLGen Pro related and it can help a .NET developer out without a job at the moment, I thought, what the heck! . NOTE: I am in no way affiliated with the company mentioned below. Mid-Level .Net Developer iHomeowners, Inc. has an immediate opening for a Mid-Level .Net Developer to join the team in our...

Lots has been said in the past days about Richard Grimes statement to drop .NET completely. First I thought: "Who's Richard Grimes?". That's saying more about me than mr. Grimes, as I often forget people's names as I find it more important to know what the theory is behind what they've accomplished than what their name is. What I'd like to give...

Update: Oliver Sturm made a few great suggestions to improve the expression and also fixed a bug with eager matching. Click here to view the complete comment which explains what eager matching is and how to fix it if you run into the same issue! Today I was working on a new functionality of the LLBLGen Pro code generator engines: user code...

Yesterday I blogged about a horrible huge bug in the groupbox control for winforms in .NET 1.1 SP1 on a themed XP system (and that's pretty much all XP systems nowadays, since .NET 1.1 SP1 is a mandatory fix on windows update.). Today I'll show you a repro case. It's a silly form with just two nested groupboxes. On a themed XP machine you'll...

Via Scott Stewart I came across this article on Infoworld. Let me rehash the quote Scott posted as well: The database community is also heading toward SOA. Plans are afoot to enable IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g, Sybase (Profile, Products, Articles) ASE, and other platforms to participate actively in Web services-based SOA...

I would like to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, or in other words: Happy Holidays! Here a small christmas message from us, with the Pier of Scheveningen, and part of the beach, that's 300meters from my house.

Friday, Microsoft brought the news that WinFS, the highly anticipated new filesystem annex object store, is delayed again. It is now said they hope to release a test version in late 2006 and it will not be present in Longhorn server as well. If WinFS isn't ready for the Longhorn server release in 2007, something serious is holding it back...

Three tips actually. All color coding related. Open VS.NET, click Tools - Options and then Environment - Fonts and Colors Under display items, browse down to Operator. Select 'Maroon' for foreground color and check 'Bold'. Under display items, browse down to String. Select 'Dark Blue' for foreground color. Under display items, browse down to...

From theserverside.net: Microsoft has decided to delay the release of SQL Server 2005 from the first half of 2005 until later in the summer of that year. A Community Technical Preview will be released as an interim beta with possibly more to come before the final beta and the product’s eventual release. As Visual Studio.NET 2005 is...

After 3 months of hard work, today, a major upgrade of one of the leading O/R mappers for .NET, LLBLGen Pro, has been released! . A large amount of new features are added to the new runtime libraries and templates, among them: MS Access 2000/XP/2003 support, prefetch paths, paging in entity collections and lists, aggregate function support and...

... they jump into the water. Below are two photos I took 10 minutes ago, at about 300 meters from my house in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. Needless to say, it's a bit erm... crowded

A couple of days ago I blogged about VS.NET lacking a multi-line search/replace feature. I filed it as a suggestion in the MSDN feedback center. And I did receive a response: Resolved as Won't Fix by Microsoft on 7/12/2004 at 11:31 PM We LOVE this suggestion. I remember the alpha chat that we had almost a year ago and remember you making the...