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 [...]

Should the web be object-oriented?

The enterprise-level development community has long held the stance that Object-Oriented Programming (OO or OOP) is the best method of developing software.  But does this really apply to web development? For almost a decade, Microsoft has devoted its web technologies to the principle that HTML should be OO.  ASP.NET WebForms is still their Internet flagship.  [...]