Rainbow Portal Community

Rainbow may return, but it will take a lot of work to recover users' perceptions of it. Many from the original team walked away when the leadership changed hands. There were a lot of licensing issues too where people were randomly changing the license that was posted. Then on top of all that, the source control moved and this community was setup, ...

I'm really liking Rainbow, but the developent seems to be foundering a little - would I be right? It would be really good if on the homepage there was up-to-date information on where you can obtain the latest Rainbow builds, an up-to-date roadmap, and where (it seems like there are at least 3 unique locations) you should go if you want to help ...

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. All in all very nice, generating a site with the following info in a matter of about 4 seconds.   1: public Table<Category> Categories; ...

The ItemCollection I have been working on quite a bit, and decided to push it to the limits with its implementation. The Typed Collection pattern The Typed Collection pattern is a way to completely strongly type implementations. This implementation includes optional events (with the ability to silence them when loading data), a complete IList ...

I 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, i am also trying to keep in mind that its ...

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 I am basically at a point where i am starting to fill in the methods, not jsut as place holders, but lgical pieces of code, they are probaly not ...

Full Resolution Image: Conten Item Class Diagram 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 ...

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 good oppertunity to get back to work on the super CMS API. (Content Portion of the ...

DAL Layer.In .NET 2.0 Microsoft was kind enough to provide us with a couple of new objects: DbConnection DbCommand DbProviderFactory Basically, the DbProviderFactory allows for us to relativly easily implement a provider independent data access layer in our application. The advantage of this methodology is that it gives you the option of ...

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 restored ( mike stone found it for me, i converted it 2.0 official rainbow) Massive ...