september 2008 - Posts

• LINQ Is More Difficult Than SQL (sometimes :)

  One common argument for O/RM adn also for LINQ is that developers shouldn't need to learn SQL and just be able to work with the objects. After working on a project where we use LINQ to SQL every day since January, I don't always feel that everything became Read More... Posted den 29 september 2008 09:49 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 3.5

• Move Your Synchronous Code to Be Asynchronous

  We, as developers, must begin to use more asynchronous thinking when we develop applications. Processors don't get any faster, they just gets more cores that can do more work simultaneously, but that is no good for us if we don’t use it. Microsoft Read More... Posted den 25 september 2008 20:00 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Forms, .NET 2.0, Design, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5

• Microsoft Sync Framework 1.0

  Today I noticed that Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0 became available for donwload in the beginning of august. I have not heard or read much about it since TechEd 2007, but the sessions I joined on TechEd presented a promising picture of this important Read More... Posted den 23 september 2008 19:50 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5

• DTCPing Issues on Vista and XP SP 2

  Earlier this week we had problems with MSDTC between a developer machine running Windows XP SP 2 and Windows Server 2003, and after testing also from developer machines running Vista. As I always do when having problem with MSDTC, we downloaded DTCPing Read More... Posted den 10 september 2008 10:48 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: Tools