Ext JS – Client-side JavaScript Framework

Ext JS is a RIA framework that was highly recommended by my colleagues, and I must admit I was highly impressed by the brief demo they gave. My next question of course is how well it integrates with the .NET web technologies and Visual Studio, answering that will make a big difference in how useful [...]

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Microsoft OneApp Framework

Framework for seamlessly offloading processing/memory/storage/etc to the cloud for hardware-limited devices? (Phones) Oh, I like! Looks like they’re trying to cram a smartphone experience onto a featurephone, but what about cramming a much richer experience onto a smartphone?
Who said Microsoft’s mobile strategy has to be limited to Windows Mobile? Redmond has just announced OneApp, a [...]

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Spring.NET – Application Framework

Spring.NET looks to be a great way to implement some best practices such as DI and AOP while letting someone else (Spring.NET) take care of the grunt work. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find very good sample code, and I’ve read comments about it being “overly complicated”. Then again, that makes it sound just like [...]

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N-Tier Applications of the Entity Framework

Interesting if somewhat scathing discussion of using the Entity Framework for n-tier applications from the developers/designers of the next version of the Entity Framework. The feedback has inspired me to look at nHibernate again, and makes me wonder if the Entity Framework is really as safe a bet as one would assume Microsoft’s implementation of [...]

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