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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 [...]
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 [...]
A schizophrenic development platform
It’s an occupational hazard, I guess. The .Net development platform is moving at an absolutely dizzying pace these days, and there’s no end in sight. Ordinarily, you might think that this is great news for Microsoft‘s customers, because we’re getting more innovation than we can swallow. That’s good, right? Umm… Image via Wikipedia Aside from [...]
More on “HTML is dead”
Microsoft‘s S. Somasegar (“Soma”), who heads the Developer Division, posted on his blog yesterday about “Key Software Development Trends“. I was pleased to see him include “Proliferation of Devices” among the top trends in development, but there was obviously an acute case of tunnel vision at work here, because Soma completely neglected all the non-Microsoft devices that people [...]
CSLA – free anti-obsolescence toolkit
Image via Wikipedia Rocky Lhotka recently announced another CSLA upgrade. One of the features in this release is support for data annotations that work in both WinForms and SilverLight. Yesterday, Rocky blogged about this implementation (Leveraging data annotation attributes in CSLA .NET). While this feature is pretty cool all by itself, it’s easy to miss [...]
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