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Checking Out PLINQO to Generate LINQ to SQL Code with CodeSmith

I’ve just started taking a look at PLINQO to generate LINQ to SQL code for a sample project I’m working on. So far, I’m impressed. PLINQO looks really promising. If you’re using CodeSmith, you should definitely take a look at it. If you haven’t tried CodeSmith for code generation in .NET, you can get a free trial.

I’ll be posting the sample application when it’s complete.

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Dew Drop – May 26, 2009

The Morning Dew is back after a day off the grid.

.NET / Visual Studio

Improvements to the F# project system inside Visual Studio (Brian McNamara)
The Dynamic Programmer – Tuple, a new type on .Net 4.0 (Hernan Garcia)
NHibernate: Why do we need to specify the query type twice? (Oren Eini)
Thoughts on Windows 7 and VS 2010 (Jason Haley)
DynamicDataTable, Part 2 (Curt Hagenlocher)
Some Great EF Resources (Danny Simmons)
Why Is The Return Type Parameter Last? (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
VS2010 Tutorial: Testing Tutorial (Step 2) (Jason Zander)
Get VS2010 Extensions easily with built-in Extension Manager (and checking out a VS2010 T4 editor) (Julie Lerman)
Learning how to walk with Mono (Louis Salin)
A Queue Isn’t An Implementation Detail (Udi Dahan)
Regular Expressions, Your Job Requires Them (Tim Barcz)

Web Development

ToDo List using ASP.NET MVC (Amit Bhandari)
Adding the LINQ to SQL ORM to Your .NET Project (Sara J. Chipps)
Creating a quick and dirty jQuery contentEditable Plugin (Rick Strahl)
Bind an ASP.NET Repeater to a Generic List<> (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

BOOKS: The CMDB Imperative and the Data Access Handbook (Brad Appleton)
Moq examples, Part II (Brett Schuchert)
Presenting Pex to your co-workers? Use our slide decks… (Jonathan de Halleux)
Revisiting CodeBetter.Canvas (Karl Seguin)
Refactoring: Removing duplication more safely (Mark Needham)
Flow, Leveling, and User Stories (Scott Bellware)
Why Are You Asking Me This Question? (Max Pool)

Silverlight / WPF

Creating Gapped and Bulleted Shapes in WPF/Silverlight (Amit Raz)
Indian MVP Inspired by Silverlight 3! (Jas Dhaliwal)
On The Bleeding Edge: Where All The Fun Is. (Jesse Liberty)
WPF MasterPage (Pascal Kaelin)
Improved Blend 3 Asset Library (John Papa)
Silverlight DataForm helpers (Tim Heuer)
Process list in XAML plus a bit of virtualisation with the .NET Client Profile (Mike Taulty)
DataForm Templates (Shawn Wildermuth)

Community / Events

US Southwest: BizTalk Server 2009 “First Look” tour (Brian Loesgen)
Events This Week – Memorial Day Edition – May 25th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Available (Sam Gentile)
Survey on Ajax adoption: some quick stats (Simone Chiaretta)
AJAX Usage Among .NET Developers – 2009 Edition (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Anu Arora: Software Testing (R)Evolution (Charles Torre)
Major Nelson Show #320 :Tekken 6 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Larry Hryb)
Hal and Kirk on HanselMinutes (Osama Sajid)

SharePoint

SharePoint Server 2010 – some random info on the web (Joris Poelmans)

Database

GUID Ordering in SQL Server and GUID Fragmentation in SQL Server and WMI Event Alerts (Martin Bell)
SQL SERVER – Find Hostname and Current Logged In User Name (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

What Microsoft Should Do For .NET Open Source (Davy Brion)
Cloud hosting providers – Compare and Contrast (Andy Singleton)
Dr. K on Top 10 Lessons in Interpersonal Skills (J.D. Meier)
The value of a fresh mind (Mark Needham)
Windows 7 Wallpaper Pack – Inspired by the New ‘7’ (Taimur Asad)
Another Windows Mobile 7 Roadmap and Windows Mobile 7 and Microsoft Research’s MashupOS in Tandem: U.S. DoD Approved and Old Windows Mobile 7 Mock-Up UI (Stephen Chapman)
How to create a hidden release – #036 (Sara Ford)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for May 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: May 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: May 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #354 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for May 24, 2009 — #600 (Dave Campbell)
Links of the week #81 (David Vidmar)
Weekly Links #54 (Grant Palin)
Links (5/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Weekly Link Post 95 (Rhonda Tipton)
Discoveries This Week 05/24/2009 (Rick Minerich)
CloudNews for May 25th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Theory in Practice (O’Reilly)): Scott Berkun: Books

ISBN: 0596517718
ISBN-13: 9780596517717

Technorati Tags: silverlight,wpf,vs2010,windows 7,windows mobile 7,powershell,sql server,sharepoint,asp.net mvc,linq to sql,nhibernate

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Dew Drop – March 3, 2009

Silverlight / WPF

Tidy Up Your Xaml And Code Behind, Use UserControls Inside Templates (Amit Raz)
Styling ListBox And Animating ListBoxItem In Silverlight 2 (Faisal Khan)
two very promising WPF application frameworks on codeplex (Jaime Rodriguez)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #97 – Creating Sprites from 3D Models – EnvyGames (Mike Snow)
how to build an outlook style application (Erwin Van Der Valk)
Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio (2005, 2008, 2010) Tips and Tricks (Angela Binkowski)
The Twitter Search API made easy with Linq to XML (Jan Tielens)
C# moved to #1 for Programming Book Sales According to O’Reilly’s Radar (Gunther Lenz)
Writing an IronPython Debugger: Setting a Breakpoint (Harry Pierson)
CSLA .NET 3.6.2 beta release (Rockford Lhotka)
Introducing Maestro – A DSL for Actor Based Concurrency and Exploring MapReduce with F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
What’s the point of Value types? (Mike Hadlow)
Things I liked most out of TFS2008 (Laila Bougria)
ADO.NET EF v LINQ to SQL (Take 4) (Chad Moran)

Web Development

JavaScript for C# programmers: object inheritance (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
jQuery, the who, what, where, why and how (Coding4Fun)
40 Useful JavaScript Libraries (Umut Muhaddisoglu)
Must use !important on your CSS class for Text color to work on ASP.NET Validation Controls (Dave Schinkel)
OAuth MVC.net Revisited (Owen Evans)
CRUD with ASP.NET MVC (screencast) (Maarten Balliauw)
43,439 reasons to use append() correctly (Josh Powell)
50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials for Designers and Developers (Paul Andrew)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Why aren’t software architects held accountable? (Simon Brown)
Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects (Gunnar Peipman)
Framework Design Guidelines: Dependency Properties (Brad Abrams)
DDD: The Specification Pattern and DDD: The Post That Should Have Preceded The Last (Casey Charlton)
Next Generation Project Planning Tool: LiquidPlanner 2.0 (Steve McConnell)
A story about ‘getting it done’ (Corey Haines)
Manage Your Projects, Not Just Your Schedule (Part 4) (Dux Raymond Sy)
Agile Architecture Method Revisited (J.D. Meier)

Community / Events

Microsoft’s own private Macworld (Todd Bishop)
MIX ’09 Plans (Nikhil Kothari)
CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, March 3rd, 6:30pm – DotNetNuke, CMS for the Masses (Christopher Steen)
Events This Week – March 2nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
ALT.NET Seattle 2009, some impressions (Ian Cooper)
Alt.Net Seattle Review (Eric Hexter)
MVPs Deliver Smart Business Solutions (Jas Dhaliwal)
SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 2 – Most Contributing MVP of Year (Pinal Dave)
Construx Offers Free Training for Laid-Off Software Workers (Pam McIlroy) – Link of the Day

PowerShell

A guide to Advanced Functions (Joel Bennett)
Powershell “CmdLet” and SharePoint (Liam Cleary)

SharePoint

Guide to SharePoint Performance Optimization (Marwan Tarek)

Database

SQL Server Upgrade Technical Reference Guide (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Releases Two New Windows 7 Guides for IT Professionals (Blake Handler)
Microsoft Opens Office 14 Kimono, Slightly (J. Nicholas Hoover)
Microsoft to start testing ‘Kumo’ search service and First screenshot of Microsoft’s Kumo (Ina Fried)
Xbox Friends Watch Gamercard now on Channel 9 profile page (Adam Kinney)
My Phone Team Is Listening: Tighter Integration With Windows Live Services In Future (Sunshine)
Facebook comes to Windows Live FrameIt, PowerToy now available for download (damaster)
Introducing NLP (Mo Khan)
Why am I seeing this dialog? (IE8) (Frank Olivier)
Ed Bott: The end justifies the means (Paul Thurrott)
OhGizmo Preview: Pixar’s Up (Evan Ackerman)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for March 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: March 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #298 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio Links #109 (Darren Stokes)
Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2009 — #532 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: 2009 03.01~03.03 (gOODiDEA)
Weekly Links #42 (Grant)
CloudNews for March 2nd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
New and Notable 297 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Windows.Net): Andrew Troelsen: Books

ISBN: 1590598849
ISBN-13: 9781590598849

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