Monthly Archives: April 2007 - Page 2

Gaia Ajax Widgets Q2 Released

Posted by on April 12, 2007 1 comment

Gaia Ajax Widgets Q2 has just been released with some new features (Accordion and TreeView controls), tons of bugfixes and updates. Gaia is getting more stable in this release, in addition to the number of samples which doubled. And Frankly to say we cant ask for more from free widgets. I will personally test most of them when I had some free time(soon).

ajax widgets screenshot Gaia Ajax Widgets Q2 Released

Free version (Express Edition) of Gaia is available and can be downloaded from the website (require registration). To check out what Gaia is capable of, go to their samples section or if you are interested in viewing their videos or downloading the library visit http://ajaxwidgets.com
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Introducing LINQ – Part 2

Posted by on April 11, 2007 No comments

Granville Barnett has provided us with his second part of his ‘Introducing LINQ’ articles. In the first one he explained LINQ basics and gave some examples. In that one he goes further by giving a specific example how do we use LINQ to SQL file.

“Conceptual data access layer?

Conceptual what?! If you are familiar with the concept of a database schema then you don’t have much to worry about! You can think of a conceptual data access layer as being your applications view of the database.

I don’t want to bog you down with entities yet! That will come in part 3 of this series. Just know that what we deal with from our applications point of view is a series of entities describing the tables and relationships in our database schema. I will let you look forward to the diagrams explaining all of this in the next part!“

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New "Orcas" Language Feature: Lambda Expressions

Posted by on April 11, 2007 No comments

Scott Guthrie is as usually explaining the new features of the new Orcas Studio. This time he looks over the Lambda Expressions. Up to now they arent supported in VB but only in C#. Looking forward to see them in VB!

So here is what Scott wrote:
step1 New "Orcas" Language Feature: Lambda Expressions

“What are Lambda Expressions?

C# 2.0 (which shipped with VS 2005) introduced the concept of anonymous methods, which allow code blocks to be written “in-line” where delegate values are expected.

Lambda Expressions provide a more concise, functional syntax for writing anonymous methods. They end up being super useful when writing LINQ query expressions – since they provide a very compact and type-safe way to write functions that can be passed as arguments for subsequent evaluation.“
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New Version of Live Maps Launches!

Posted by on April 4, 2007 No comments

Yesturday a new version of Live Maps was launched, the sixth major rev since July 7, 2005 when V1 went out. Among the new feature items are a bunch of bug fixes, performance improvements and enhancements to existing functionality.
What is interesting to see is new Firefox support for 3D mapping. You have to install one plugin and there you have it. Thats major improvement since GMaps doesnt have that kind of feature.

New Version of Live Maps Launches!

I have only one concern about Live Maps, I think they should spend more attention on Europe and focus on the geocodes there and bring more details.

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IIS 7.0

Posted by on April 3, 2007 No comments

march07cover IIS 7.0Great article just published on ScottGu’s Blog. Shows some basic advantages of new IIS 7 over previous releases which includes:

- You can now use ASP.NET Forms Authentication, Membership/Roles, and any other feature for all requests to the server (for example: .htm, .php, and .jsp files)

- You can now easily re-write the URL of any web request and/or modify the request in interesting ways

- You can replace or extend any existing IIS feature using VB or C# (for example: you could remove the built-in directory listing module and plug-in your own).
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