July 2007 - Posts

Fun Washington Stuff
31 July 07 09:34 AM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   

This one's a bit off the beaten path for my usual posts... Here in the Pacific Northwest, the area has a reputation for not having much sun during the winter. Of course during these summer days the weather is just gorgeous, but in any case, there's always Read More...

VS 2008 Beta 2 available
27 July 07 09:12 AM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   

The announcement is right here . ScottGu has a recap of the articles he's posted so far here . For those who fell like they can't wait for the download, the "What's New" page is available on MSDN here . As you can see, there's a lot of developer love Read More...

Filed under: WPF, Development, SQL

Astoria Team Blog up and running
24 July 07 09:58 AM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   

Yes, I've finished my transition from the ADO.NET Entity Framework to Project Astoria. The team blog is already up and running over at http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/ , and as this post mentions, we'll be working with an eye towards being very transparent Read More...

Filed under: Entities, Astoria

Rich Visualizations with Silverlight and Astoria
13 July 07 03:38 PM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   

How we get here I found myself wanting to have a nicer way of looking at a bunch of data I reference every now and then. Often I will whip up a quick HTML application to do this - it's ultimately a simple text file I can quickly edit and tweak, and the Read More...

Filed under: WPF, Entities, Astoria

ADO.NET Entity Framework June 2007 CTP - yay!
02 July 07 09:59 PM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   

There are a fair number of new and improved features in this release - check the list out at http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2007/07/02/ado-net-entity-framework-june-2007-ctp-now-available.aspx . Read More...

Filed under: Entities