Top 10 Reasons Web Developers Should Avoid Flash

Subtitle:  Is Adobe Flash Still Relevant in Web 2.0? I remember when I first saw Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash) more than a decade ago.  I was blown away seeing smooth animation and vector-based graphics running in a web browser.  I thought to myself, “This is the future of the web.”  And it was…  for [...]

Free DotNetNuke Modules: Part 1

I’ve been a fan of DotNetNuke for several years, but I haven’t had many opportunities to use it in the real world until recently. As I run into different business needs, I often face the eternal question about DotNetNuke modules: “Should I built it or buy it?” True, there are a lot of great modules [...]

Microsoft Announces Continued Support for LINQ-to-SQL

I got my weekly MSDN Flash email today and saw an article titled “Top Ten Questions to Microsoft on Data.” I was pleasantly surprised to read the following: Question #3: Where does Microsoft stand on LINQ to SQL? Answer: We would like to be very transparent with our customers about our intentions for future innovation [...]

PLINQO 5.0 is Released

Hey – I’m actually not behind-the-times with this announcement. Yesterday, the CodeSmith team announced the arrival of PLINQO 5.0. It’s getting hard to keep up with all the new versions. Who says LINQ-to-SQL is dead? Some feature highlights: Support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 New SQL Cache Dependency option Improved eager loading features [...]

Version 4.0.1 of PLINQO Released

Okay, I’m a little behind on blogging. Since I previously wrote multiple posts regarding PLINQO (Professional LINQ-to-SQL), I wanted to drop a quick update that version 4.0.1 was recently released. I also skipped writing about the release of version 4.0.0 because I couldn’t find a definitive enhancement list. I stumbled across it today, so I’m [...]

PLINQO 3.0 – Even Better

I wrote a blog article a few months ago giving kudos to the guys at CodeSmith after my discovery of PLINQO 2.0. Since then, I haven’t done much with LINQ-to-SQL because the legacy projects at my day job use Castle ActiveRecord with NHibernate. But I recently started a new project (giving me the freedom to [...]

Does LINQ StinQ? Not with PLINQO!

There has been much debate over Microsoft’s first major Object Relational Mapper (ORM) called LINQ (Language-Integrated Query). Microsoft has released a several flavors of LINQ suitable for different purposes, most notably LINQ-to-SQL and LINQ-to-Entities. Most developers use LINQ-to-SQL given that LINQ-to-Entities is brand new and most info available online is about LINQ-to-SQL, so for the [...]