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LinQ, Blinq, and ContentDB

So, I tested out LinQ today, and found my way to Blinq which is an autogenerator admin tool for DB's generating a bunch of asp.net pages, linQ code, super fast, using a couple of cool things.

Content ItemCollection

The ItemCollection I have been working on quite a bit, and decided to push it to the limits with its implementation

Content Progress

have been working a fair ammount on the api, as much as time allows, and this was a holiday week :-) In anycase, I wanted to update a bit. The objects are starting to take a bit more shape, and feel to them, i am already finding some things i wasnt quite ppleased with and worked out nicer solutions

Content API Complete Class Diagram Plus DB Diagram

These are only class boxes, the entire diagram is really to big to take a screen shot of. If someone knows how to generate usable diagrams of large schems outside of vs, please let me know. The Picture

Updatead Content Item Image

I have added and organized the objects a little more, there are also a number of other classes you dont see there such as culture, status, category and their respective collections, there is also a preliminary dal object currently using an sql wrapper i upgraded to use dbprovider factory i got on codeproject

Content API Introduction

A long time ago Bill and I started talking about the item system (which by the way Microsoft is doing something similar with WinFS), however that project never went anywhere due to time and all that. In any case, with the 2.0 restrucutre, i felt it a

DAL Layer, DataBase Factories and Multiple Provider support

Basically, the DbProviderFactory allows for us to relativly easily implement a provider independent data access layer in our application.

Rainbow 2.0 Alpha 3 now commited.

The preliminary commit is online, Eric and his team are going to do some quick qa, and then probably release a zip package for some mass testing. To summarize: Almost all web page and controls are now partial classes XHTML from eric Google Search Module

Where is phase one going....?

Ok, since I bet everyone is curious as to what I am up to now....I thought I would give a sneak preview. There is a new project, Rainbow.Framework.Web, most of the web ui stuff, and elements from framework are being moved to there, allowing a cleaner

Upcomming Updates

In the comming days I will be commiting some fixes and updates. I have corrected the localization issues in some of the module settings. Almost all of the modules in Websites\Rainbow are converted to partial class ( leading to overall code download reduction

New Framework and Website Code Online

New Code online at svn , check out my sandbox . Code Documents moved to online repository: codedocs.rainbowbeta.com Solution cleaned to 5 projects ( 2 Duemitri which need to be replaced with master pages, and 3 Rainbow.Frameowrk projects) Code solution

New HIstory File Sample

This is a screen shot of the XML / XSL module loaded with History.xml and History.xsl which are located in the default portal directory.

Preview Information for weekend commit that is coming

Preview Information for weekend commit that is coming: : So tonight and tomorrow, I am just doing some Q & A on my solution, doing lot's of clean installs, and switching db's all the time, changing virtual directories, testing as local host as well

New Code Commit of Rainbow on 2.0

Posted some new code into my sandbox today http://tinyurl.com/zeyzd has the comments. Bascially, you should read my latest blogs , and the readme file in the dev folder of my trunk, and then try it out if you like, help me find issues, or actually help

ASP.NET 2.0, Multiple projects in the solution, No Esperantus and more!

ASP.NET 2.0, Multiple projects in the solution, No Esperantus and more! Web holds your modules and pages, etc... web.config, rainbow.config ( why can't we joing them ? ) AppCode Contains all the zen code, and raiinbow folders code Rainbow.Framework .Web.UI.Webcontrols
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