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Borland’s IDE have been a part of my life since I am 9 years old. I got used to the short-cuts and thus know the IDE by heart. In school we had to look at different versions of VB, but I never really got used to the different approach to do things and I also got confused as Microsoft used different short-cuts. Now with ECO IV for VS being in Continue reading

After posting my last blog entry regarding LINQ, Jonas Högström pinged me on Skype. He asked me, why I had used Count() instead of Count(). As IEnumerable<> already was only carrying string objects, there was no need to do that. I agreed, but said that I fell into a trap with Intellisense. Visual Studio makes it so easy to enter code that you sometimes make your code too verbose. However

Thanks to Lex Li (http://lextm.blogspot.com/) I found a link to three great e-books from MS Press. The topics are not outdated what one may think when reading “free”.  Only the LINQ book is complete, the rest are restricted to some essential chapters.

The books are:

• Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo
• Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX by Dino Esposito (Chapters
• Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 by Laurence Moroney

LinQ is much more than just being able to write database applications easier. People, who say that LinQ is limited to databases, should really have a look at it first. The strength of LinQ is that you can apply SQL-like queries to framework objects. Mostly, those are the same people who say that WCF is a new framework from Microsoft to force users to use new protocols invented by MS – Continue reading

As blogs are supposed to be matter of fact style and without suspense: yes, you can use ECO Models that have been created with Visual Studio 2005/2008 in RAD Studio 2007 and vice versa. It even works if you target .NET 3.0/3.5 in Visual Studio 2008. You just have to add “System.Core.dll” from .NET 3.5 to your Delphi project that references the model and ECO will be able to pick Continue reading