Channel 9 - Discussions by ubercoder http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by ubercoder http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions en Fri, 24 May 2013 16:26:14 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 16:26:14 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - Tackling ORM: Save my fingers!

irascian wrote:
?You say you're "in the process" but in the next sentence make it clear you've already made up your mind and that everyone else should follow?!

What are the other products you're evaluating? What are their relative weaknesses and strengths? And why do you think EntitySpaces is the obvious front-runner?

I tried dOOdas, EntitySpaces, SubSonic and LLBLGen.

I read a lot about CLSA.Net; is great but too heavy. I prefer a van from a truck and CLSA.Net is a Kenworth.

dOOdas is very simple and lacks features but it has zero learning curve.

SubSonic has a lot of features but the documentation is minimal (open source?). I had some problems running the trial with a database in AppData so I moved on.

I like EntitySpaces because it has plenty of features but small learning curve. I love their scaffolding. Great documentation and forums. Good in both ASP.Net and win forms.

Although I played with EntitySpaces in code I'm reading the LLBLGen documentation right now.It looks good so far but has a higher learning curve than EntitySpaces and is more complex.
I like their built-in validation.

I made my decision of using EntitySpaces in a small Win forms app but I may consider trying LLBLGen for an e-commerse site I'm building.

Ubercoder.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/257504-Tackling-ORM-Save-my-fingers/c9fd45c6ac274487a4289deb0014cd5e#c9fd45c6ac274487a4289deb0014cd5e Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:13:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/257504-Tackling-ORM-Save-my-fingers/c9fd45c6ac274487a4289deb0014cd5e#c9fd45c6ac274487a4289deb0014cd5e ubercoder 29 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Tackling ORM: Save my fingers! What you need is EntitySpaces.

It uses MyGenerationSoftware (free) code generator and creates a whole DAL for you from CRUD stored procedures to custom classes ready for databinding and any other use.

I'm in the process of evaluating different solutions and I believe EntitySpaces is the right one. Is only $149 for a single lisence.

LLBLGen is too complicated I believe; I need something simpler.

Ubercoder

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/257504-Tackling-ORM-Save-my-fingers/e4a06da4e6cd4cc88e609deb0014ccb3#e4a06da4e6cd4cc88e609deb0014ccb3 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:57:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/257504-Tackling-ORM-Save-my-fingers/e4a06da4e6cd4cc88e609deb0014ccb3#e4a06da4e6cd4cc88e609deb0014ccb3 ubercoder 29 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - NetTiers, Subsonic, DLINQ, CSLA, NHibernate etc etc ... which one? What about EntitySpaces?

I'm using the trial and so far it looks good.

Any good/bad experiences?

Ubercoder.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/252811-NetTiers-Subsonic-DLINQ-CSLA-NHibernate-etc-etc--which-one/c636822b6d65467898de9dea01537ed3#c636822b6d65467898de9dea01537ed3 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:15:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/252811-NetTiers-Subsonic-DLINQ-CSLA-NHibernate-etc-etc--which-one/c636822b6d65467898de9dea01537ed3#c636822b6d65467898de9dea01537ed3 ubercoder 15 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best Free RSS Feed Reader? The feature I liked the most in Onfolio is the "Reading List" where you select articles for a later reading.
After you read the article you just remove it from the list.

Is that supported in sharpreader?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252164-Best-Free-RSS-Feed-Reader/db44fb4ce8a14870983f9dec0056971b#db44fb4ce8a14870983f9dec0056971b Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:41:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252164-Best-Free-RSS-Feed-Reader/db44fb4ce8a14870983f9dec0056971b#db44fb4ce8a14870983f9dec0056971b ubercoder 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best Free RSS Feed Reader? Nobody reads RSS in this forum?

I know Channel9 is good but....8-)

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252164-Best-Free-RSS-Feed-Reader/dad1924fe2f145a9addb9dec005696ca#dad1924fe2f145a9addb9dec005696ca Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:30:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252164-Best-Free-RSS-Feed-Reader/dad1924fe2f145a9addb9dec005696ca#dad1924fe2f145a9addb9dec005696ca ubercoder 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best Free RSS Feed Reader? Copy from that post:

"Anyone wanna gimme a windows mobile phone for me to try it on? Smiley"

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252164-Best-Free-RSS-Feed-Reader/97d611b7f78d4855afda9dec005696a4#97d611b7f78d4855afda9dec005696a4 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:56:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252164-Best-Free-RSS-Feed-Reader/97d611b7f78d4855afda9dec005696a4#97d611b7f78d4855afda9dec005696a4 ubercoder 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Best Free RSS Feed Reader? Hi guys,

Since Onfolio keeps crashing my IE 7, I'm in the search for a similar RSS Feed Reader.

I love Onfolio because is simple and has enought good features but is unusable after 3-4 minutes of use, popping a "Buffer Overflow" message (actually my antivirus does).

Any suggestions?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252164-Best-Free-RSS-Feed-Reader/252164#252164 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:47:05 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252164-Best-Free-RSS-Feed-Reader/252164#252164 ubercoder 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Lightweight CMS (possibly ASP.NET 2.0) W2bbo,

I'm not talking about "collapsing the sidebars". This is too primitive.

There are cases where you want to keep the user in the same page, like a search. Instead of redirecting the user from search results to other pages to do his work, you can show/hide page sections. It helps the user's workflow.

You can show/hide sections based on server-side processing and the app must decide which section to be shown or hidden. Still is done with javascript but from server side code.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251604-Lightweight-CMS-possibly-ASPNET-20/b64d9b0b5b8c4f69b2f59dec004db785#b64d9b0b5b8c4f69b2f59dec004db785 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:45:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251604-Lightweight-CMS-possibly-ASPNET-20/b64d9b0b5b8c4f69b2f59dec004db785#b64d9b0b5b8c4f69b2f59dec004db785 ubercoder 18 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Lightweight CMS (possibly ASP.NET 2.0)
W3bbo wrote:

... (there is no need to collapse page sections, even less need to do it through postback...



I can't disagree enought with this statement...

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251604-Lightweight-CMS-possibly-ASPNET-20/1a03d6c6c34c447d91fc9dec004db733#1a03d6c6c34c447d91fc9dec004db733 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:32:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/251604-Lightweight-CMS-possibly-ASPNET-20/1a03d6c6c34c447d91fc9dec004db733#1a03d6c6c34c447d91fc9dec004db733 ubercoder 18 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Bloggers .... I believe the problem with blogging is that some bloggers are professionals. They do this for a living.

Blogging is all about freedom of speech(writing?) and democracy.
How much of that a hired blogger can have.

Nowadays, people are hired to blog about products, services, companies, etc.
I believe the fact that someone must be productive affects his ability to be honest and democratic.

Is another example where a natural product of the Internet is commercialized.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249971-Bloggers-/1e5698fbc39e4a16baf59dec00346971#1e5698fbc39e4a16baf59dec00346971 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:51:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249971-Bloggers-/1e5698fbc39e4a16baf59dec00346971#1e5698fbc39e4a16baf59dec00346971 ubercoder 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - How can I get a Channel9 Guy??? I just got my C9 guy in the mail yesterday. I took only 3 months to arrive.

I guess, I can call myself a real Niner from now on.

Thanks guys.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/220887-How-can-I-get-a-Channel9-Guy/2d5e1145c89d48cb9a5a9dec00049e75#2d5e1145c89d48cb9a5a9dec00049e75 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:12:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/220887-How-can-I-get-a-Channel9-Guy/2d5e1145c89d48cb9a5a9dec00049e75#2d5e1145c89d48cb9a5a9dec00049e75 ubercoder 30 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - International micro-ISVs selling to US companies jsampsonPC,

This is exactly my point.

Sell my product in the US, where the economy is strong, but live in Europe where lifestyle is so much better.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249747-International-micro-ISVs-selling-to-US-companies/7a13e6c170c3472f81a09dec00303b15#7a13e6c170c3472f81a09dec00303b15 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:25:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249747-International-micro-ISVs-selling-to-US-companies/7a13e6c170c3472f81a09dec00303b15#7a13e6c170c3472f81a09dec00303b15 ubercoder 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - International micro-ISVs selling to US companies Hi folks,

I'm doing a little research on building a micro-ISV here in US, establish it and then move to Europe and run it from there.

I'm from Europe but I live in US for the last 12 years. My wife and I, we check the possibility of going back one day.

Selling a product in US is a very good idea, providing that I don't need the same revenue to live comfortable in Europe like I do here.

Do you think is possible?
Does anyone achieve that?

Looking for some insight, ideas and suggestions.

Thanks.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249747-International-micro-ISVs-selling-to-US-companies/249747#249747 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:14:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/249747-International-micro-ISVs-selling-to-US-companies/249747#249747 ubercoder 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Start an online business z33driver,

Finding that someone else is doing the same thing like yours is always a good thing.

It means there's a market for it. If you're alone it may mean that there's no market at all.

You right about doing it and stop analyzing and preparing for it.
I still wait for that big idea to strike.

Looking forward for your thoughts; please post them in my blog, so others can read them.

Thanks,
Ubercoder

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/245252-Start-an-online-business/db67df75273f4f8485059dec002874ee#db67df75273f4f8485059dec002874ee Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:47:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/245252-Start-an-online-business/db67df75273f4f8485059dec002874ee#db67df75273f4f8485059dec002874ee ubercoder 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Start an online business I wrote down my ideas on the pros and cons of possible product types that someone can build to start a online business.

Please read it at http://Ubercoder.wordpress.com and provide some feedback on:

1) Which product types did you choose?
2) Which is more successful?
3) Which is easier for a beginner micro-ISV to start with?
4) Which is the most profitable?

Please, post your comments, corrections and ideas. Let’s create a viable resource for new micro-ISV's (including me) to help them on their decision making

Thanks,

Ubercoder

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/245252-Start-an-online-business/245252#245252 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:34:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/245252-Start-an-online-business/245252#245252 ubercoder 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - B2B or B2C? Which Market is better for mISVers?
JohnAskew wrote:


The product will reflect your passion.



This is always the holy grail of mISVers.
Doing something you love and make money out of it.

JohnAskew wrote:


I would even stoop to say that the consumer market will tolerate ads in desktop software if it serves their purpose and is freely distributed -- this means you've come full circle back to B2B, selling ads... The secure $$ is B2B (dangit).



I forgot this possibility, the sky is the limit in this area. 

I love the community! Cool

Thanks Johnaskew.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240914-B2B-or-B2C-Which-Market-is-better-for-mISVers/a28f45087418479aa5be9dec00215045#a28f45087418479aa5be9dec00215045 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:36:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240914-B2B-or-B2C-Which-Market-is-better-for-mISVers/a28f45087418479aa5be9dec00215045#a28f45087418479aa5be9dec00215045 ubercoder 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - B2B or B2C? Which Market is better for mISVers? I tried to answer this question myself by writing an analysis on the pros and cons of each market.

http://ubercoder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ubercoder.wordpress.com

Read on and post your comments.

Which market did you choose and why?
Which attribute was more important for you?

Uberocder.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240914-B2B-or-B2C-Which-Market-is-better-for-mISVers/240914#240914 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:05:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240914-B2B-or-B2C-Which-Market-is-better-for-mISVers/240914#240914 ubercoder 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Nostalgic for the old days?
Ion Todirel wrote:
The old Turbo C++/Turbo Pascal


Oh yeah, I missed Turbo Pascal.
You remember that we have to press [Ctrl]+F9 to compile and then [Alt]+F9 to run in debug mode.

Am I remember it correctly??

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/f0cf9f1acca840d7ad239dec0020ccf0#f0cf9f1acca840d7ad239dec0020ccf0 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:03:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/f0cf9f1acca840d7ad239dec0020ccf0#f0cf9f1acca840d7ad239dec0020ccf0 ubercoder 23 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Nostalgic for the old days? My first modem was operating at 1900 bps, I think.
(bps = Bytes per Second).

Cool

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/1991993ddf934e548e989dec0020ccc1#1991993ddf934e548e989dec0020ccc1 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:01:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/1991993ddf934e548e989dec0020ccc1#1991993ddf934e548e989dec0020ccc1 ubercoder 23 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Nostalgic for the old days?
thumbtacks wrote:

jamie wrote: - 32 floppy disc installs (coreldraw)
Er, would that be 5 1/4" floppies or 3 1/2" ones? Remember kids, paper hole punchers are a single-sided 5 1/4" floppy's best friend!


I remember that; double the size just by opening an extra hole.

That worked for 3 1/2" floppies, right?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/805e6b01a1774742ab6a9dec0020cbbb#805e6b01a1774742ab6a9dec0020cbbb Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:55:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/805e6b01a1774742ab6a9dec0020cbbb#805e6b01a1774742ab6a9dec0020cbbb ubercoder 23 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Nostalgic for the old days?
phreaks wrote:
Doesn't anyone miss trumptet Winsock, TN3270 Emulation, Lynx or Gopher?



I missed Gopher.

Try to explain what Gopher is today to someone that started on the Internet with IE 4.0. Sad

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/64d540969a724b2c80ef9dec0020cb8c#64d540969a724b2c80ef9dec0020cb8c Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:52:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/64d540969a724b2c80ef9dec0020cb8c#64d540969a724b2c80ef9dec0020cb8c ubercoder 23 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Nostalgic for the old days? I remember, I had to remove most device drivers from autoexec.bat and config.sys so I can run Harvard Graphics on my 286.

The executable was about 1MB, and that's how much my RAM was too.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/05f922e8203146a5ab439dec0020cb5e#05f922e8203146a5ab439dec0020cb5e Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:50:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/05f922e8203146a5ab439dec0020cb5e#05f922e8203146a5ab439dec0020cb5e ubercoder 23 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Nostalgic for the old days?
Thanks, I'll keep my blog updated with my progress, so I can help others who took that path.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/20ec6e65cb32426190dc9dec0020ca75#20ec6e65cb32426190dc9dec0020ca75 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:09:33 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/20ec6e65cb32426190dc9dec0020ca75#20ec6e65cb32426190dc9dec0020ca75 ubercoder 23 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Nostalgic for the old days? W3bbo,

You are a spring chicken, man. Smiley

I'm talking back on 80's.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/f01ffa52c3454056abf89dec0020ca47#f01ffa52c3454056abf89dec0020ca47 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:06:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/f01ffa52c3454056abf89dec0020ca47#f01ffa52c3454056abf89dec0020ca47 ubercoder 23 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Nostalgic for the old days? I don't have the big idea yet, just a list of candidates.

I'm in the very early stages of implementing this.

So far, I've made the big decision and I'm doing my research; I want to be prepared when that good idea shows up.

I'm looking to start by myself, with no outside money and slowly move to mISV while keeping my full time job.
The product will be a B2B small and lite application for small to mid size business.

Ubercoder.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/fed786f365e44c8ba8689dec0020c98f#fed786f365e44c8ba8689dec0020c98f Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:55:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/240474-Nostalgic-for-the-old-days/fed786f365e44c8ba8689dec0020c98f#fed786f365e44c8ba8689dec0020c98f ubercoder 23 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/ubercoder/Discussions/RSS