Archive for January, 2008
The point of a multi layer architecture
January 31st, 2008 | 
Author: I’m planning on doing a series of videos on multi-layer/multi-tiered architecture using LINQ, but before I get to that I thought it would be helpful to first discuss the advantages of multi-layered architectures.
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Three Rules for Database Work
K. Scott Allen over at odeToCode.com has these three rules for developing with a database: Read the rest of this entry »
Changes in the Web Deployment Project
Yesterday I mentioned that the final release of the Web Deployment Project for Visual Studio 2008 was out.
I installed it and ran into one small little issue you’ll want to know about if you have projects that were using the CTP release.
VS 2008 Web Deployment Project Support
Scott Guthrie reports that the Web Deployment Project final release is now available here:
Make sure you uninstall any CTP version you have installed.
If you need more details, you can go to the Web Dev Tools blog
Using The LINQDataSource
There is a new datasource control available in Visual Studio that works in much the same way as the SQLDataSource and the ObjectDataSource. While I would argue that the LinqDataSource is better than the SqlDataSource, I’m not yet ready to say that it is better than the ObjectDataSource. And, until I do a bit more experimenting with this new control, I’ll probably still use the ObjectDataSource.
However, there are some of you who are probably using the SqlDataSource who should probably move to the LinqDataSource ASAP. Here’s the basics of how you use this new control.
