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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 The topics are not outdated what one may think when reading “free”.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

Firstly, Merry Christmas! Yup, it’s the season of X-Mas coding as I refer to it. Mostly, one fiddles around and tries new things …

For me, I looked closely at ASP.NET 2.0. Sadly, there are actually some things MS introduced that really make me ask myself if it is progress or a big step backwards. Furthermore, some bugs that seem to be in the framework since version 2.0 are still Continue reading

I recently blogged about the fact that the ECO Team started a Field Test for ECO for Visual Studio. 

Christmas is near… thus, the ECO Team released a new Field Test build for ECO for Visual Studio. The new installer supports automatic installation in Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008. The builds come with a modeler now. Whenever you create ECO models, VS starts an instance of EcoModeler by ModelMaker Tools. As I have Continue reading