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Well, I was getting ready to write this cool, earth shattering blog entry, but I was beat to the punch in a fancier fashion. So instead, I will summarize, and point to the resources :-) .NET 3 is a collection of technologies and addons to the 2.0 Framework. It is not in my opinoin, and confirmed now a bunch of new bcl or clr stuff. It's ...

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; ...

Found a nice newish article on MSDN about creating provider like features, not just extending them. ''The ASP.NET provider-based features rely on a common set of public types and helper classes. Stefan Schackow shows how to author your own provider-based features by leveraging the provider model support in the .NET Framework 2.0 to quickly and ...

Well, i was looking at the content api, and noticed, settings are reptitive in a few objects, and they need to support different types. i was working on it a bit, and came up with something like this... i hope to get some feedback, because filip and i are moving along, and the base code once in place, wont change for a bit as we proced, as ...

Recently, I have been doing a lot of work in making controls have some design time support, I am creating composite controls, and it's a whole different world from user controls i have to say :-) I have made them before, but really only used them in code or in things i needed and jsut manipulaed, never worrying much about designer support, ...

I am not sure why, but it took me a while to reallly grasp Events and Delegates. I understood what they where, and how to use them, but for some reason it took a little while to click in my head. So for anyone in the same boat I was, here is a very simple way of understanding them, while looking at a code sample. Event - Something that ...

Full observer patter on item object generated in half second using code dome for all tables currently in content db.   1: public class Item 2: { 3: #region Fields 4: private long m_ItemId; 5: 6: private long m_ItemMasterID; 7: 8: private int ...

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 ...

Kevin Downs the creator of NDoc has started working on NDoc for .NET 2.0 again. You can get the latest stable build at any given time from ndoc.sourceforge.net/ndoc-nightly.zip Currently he has added support for 2.0 iterators and anonymous methods. And I predict within the comming weeks we should see full support for 2.0 features like generics ...

This week I had a hard day to track down a remoting issue we had with our product. Basically, we have remote cache server, that uses .NET remoting to store binary serialized information, which is shared across all our apps, and projects. In our task of finding an optimal migration path so that we could put all new development in 2.0 while ...