VistaDB .net database blog100% C# powered ado.net SQL engineWhat changed in Dot Net 3.5 SP1- August 18, 2008 There are a few interesting blogs from people about the changes in 3.5 SP1. Here are a few stats: Summary: Assemblies 112 Namespaces 919 to 935 (+16 +1.7%) Types 39 988 to 40 513 (+525 +1.3%) Methods 387 421 to 386 790 (-631 -0.2%) Fields 241 567 to 246...http://vistadb.net/blog/news/what-changed-in-dot-net-3-5-sp1/ Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is live- August 12, 2008 Yep, SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 is now live. This service pack includes a HUGE amount of changes from Microsoft. It really should be a new release it is so big. Download Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - Its a bootstrapper than then downloads a larger set and takes a while to run... Major new ADO.NET Features Well the big deal from our standpoint is the Entity Framework! We are well underway with our provider and are very excited to now we working with live bits that we don't have to...http://vistadb.net/blog/news/visual-studio-2008-sp1-is-live/ Generics and Dictionaries are fast data caches- August 1, 2008 There is a point when we would all love to go back and fix old things we have written. Maybe you learn a new language and wish you could go back and rewrite that old project in it, or how to use a new library that would have improved an old project. Generics and the generic collection objects are like that for me. I have been spending a lot of time lately refactoring (err, rewriting) pieces of code that have been in production for a long time. Some of this code has been in...http://vistadb.net/blog/articles/generics-and-dictionaries-are-fast-for-most-recently-used... |