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More thoughts on Microsoft Lightswitch

By dlambert ⋅ August 20, 2010 ⋅ View Comments

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 [...]

A schizophrenic development platform

By dlambert ⋅ August 4, 2010 ⋅ View Comments

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 [...]

Astoria team shares future direction

By dlambert ⋅ October 27, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

Following the release of Visual Studio 2008, a handful of significant enhancements began to take shape, targeted for the SP1 timeframe.  I’m sure most of you heard about the MVC Framework for ASP.Net, and you may have heard about the Dynamic Data Website, too.  But I’m still surprised how many people haven’t heard of Astoria [...]

Overload ToString() to make debugging easier

By dlambert ⋅ October 15, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

When you’re debugging code in Visual Studio, you’re going to end up setting breakpoints, watching variables, and maybe dumping information to a log file or the immediate window.  Wouldn’t it be nice if you could read some of it? Too often, we wait until we’re writing a log entry or trying to peer into the [...]

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