Frans Bouma's blog

Three tips actually. All color coding related. Open VS.NET, click Tools - Options and then Environment - Fonts and Colors

1. Under display items, browse down to Operator. Select 'Maroon' for foreground color and check 'Bold'.
2. Under display items, browse down to String. Select 'Dark Blue' for foreground color.
3. Under display items, browse down to Xml Doc Comment. Select 'Custom' for background color and select a very light grey, like RGB 245, 245, 245. Do this also for Xml Tag

No... no objectspaces, but MSN Spaces! and no O/R mapper, but a blogging site! . Of course, I created a spot, err... space, over there: http://spaces.msn.com/members/fransbouma. I'll use it for off-topic rambling, but I'm not sure if anyone will ever visit that blog . Oh well...

Via Andres Aguiar I stumbled into one of the most insightful articles I've read in the last couple of months: Language Oriented Programming, The Next Programming Paradigm, written by Sergey Dmitriev of Jetbrains.

Just read it: http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/

From theserverside.net:

Microsoft has decided to delay the release of SQL Server 2005 from the first half of 2005 until later in the summer of that year. A Community Technical Preview will be released as an interim beta with possibly more to come before the final beta and the product’s eventual release.

On the www.asp.net forums (the architecture section), a person asked in the 'Your favorite O/R mapper' thread, why someone would use a 3rd party component for data-access and why would that be an O/R mapper and if so, which one? I've tried to answer these questions in that thread, but because I think it can be of benefit for more people than just the readers of that long forum thread, I've reworked the text into an article you'll find below. Keep in mind I've tried to keep things simple to understand, so perhaps I've left out a detail here and there, however I don't think these details will matter much to the overall conclusions and descriptions. As I've addressed a couple of questions, which I think are related to each other, I've re-written the forum response as a Q & A.

After 3 months of hard work, today, a major upgrade of one of the leading O/R mappers for .NET, LLBLGen Pro, has been released! . A large amount of new features are added to the new runtime libraries and templates, among them: MS Access 2000/XP/2003 support, prefetch paths, paging in entity collections and lists, aggregate function support and sql expression support and much more. Below is the full list of new things.

This upgrade is of course free for our customers .

Marcus Mac Innes discusses the possibility of synchronized .NET collection classes not being as tread safe as they are advertised to be . I can only conclude... he's absolutely right.