lex parsimoniae
.Net Development
CodeBetter.Com wants to send you to Redmond!
Here’s a great way for you to get to Redmond this fall for one of the most popular conferences of the season. CodeBetter.Com is giving away one conference pass to Visual Studio Live! in Redmond (October 17th – 21st, 2011), plus $500 toward travel / hotel costs. To enter, go visit CodeBetter.Com wants to send you to [...]
FileHelpers flat-file library
A while back, I started doing some work on an application that does a lot of flat-file writing — specifically, fixed-width (positional) ASCII text files. Now, this isn’t really exciting stuff, but like COBOL, it still makes a lot of businesses go round, but doing flat-file manipulation by hand seemed like about seven kinds of crazy, so [...]
Stored Procedure References
Last week, I did a little work to track down unused stored procedures in a large-ish SQL Server database. Searching for references in source code was interesting all by itself, but I also wanted to see which procs were referenced by other procedures. This is what I came up with: select o1.name 'referencing proc', o2.name [...]
Matthew Groves: OR/M Comparisons
Matthew Groves has been working on a series of articles comparing some OR/M frameworks. So far, he’s done some posts on Entity Framework and Fluent NHibernate, but I believe he’s planning on hitting a couple more, too. If you’re a .Net developer, you know what a “lively” subject this always is. Data access consumes so [...]
More thoughts on Microsoft Lightswitch
A couple weeks ago, Microsoft announced a tool called Lightswitch, and the response in the development community has been almost universally tepid. One of these responses really caught my eye, though. It was from Bill Vaughn, who’s been the patron saint of Microsoft data access for as long as there’s been Microsoft data access. This [...]
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