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12 oktober 2008
SDN Conference 2008
This year's edition was great, maybe even the nicest ever. Noordwijkerhout and its hotel annex conference venue are a great place to stay. The previous years at Papendal, Arnhem were very nice, but I guess this one tops it. Anyway, I met loads of people, from famous to acquaintances from the community... Read More...
20 september 2007
Software Developer Conference 2007
Past Monday and Tuesday the annual Software Developer Conference (SDC, before 2004 known as the Conference to the Max) was held in Papendal, Arnhem again. Loads of great national and international speakers where there to educate and entertain the 450 participants. The vibe was good and I think everybody... Read More...
08 november 2006
Is Linq to SQL here to stay?
A couple of days ago the October 2006 CTP of Visual Studio Orcas appeared. Loads of people blogged about it appearing, but I get the impression not a lot of people actually played with it. In the meantime Pablo Castro from the ADO.NET data team just posted on their weblog that: “ Also, since the ADO... Read More...
11 juli 2006
The XML schema's for DLinq
Tonight I browsed some more through the documentation of DLinq (I’ll refer to Linq to SQL this way, because it is shorter and until the namespace is changed from System.Data.DLinq). In particular I looked at the document ‘DLinq Overview for C# Developers’. There is a section called... Read More...
09 juli 2006
Linq to SQL + mapping files ~= ObjectSpaces
Most of the samples that have been around on Linq to SQL (formerly called DLinq) use CLR types that are annotated using attributes, such Column and Association. The System.Data.DLinq.DataContext class extracts the metadata during runtime. With this information it knows how to build SQL statements from... Read More...
17 juni 2006
Blinq, blinq, pimp my web app
Scott Guthrie has done a demo in his two part Tech Ed 2006 talk and also showed a demo of the Blinq prototype. Unfortunately I was not at TechEd, but he posted on it . Since Blinq is up on the Sandbox page of the ASP.NET website , I decided to check it out. Blinq creates a website built on top of a SQL... Read More...
29 maart 2006
RAD Race 2006 results: Class-A finishes 4th
A while ago I blogged about Class-A participating in the RAD Race 2006 . The team that spent two days in a too small room with about 25 other people consisted of Dennis van der Stelt and myself. We had to wait quite a while to get the results, but they were announced today at the Database Systems 2006... Read More...