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29. april 2007 14:32

Say bye to ADO.NET Entity Framework in Orcas/.NET 3.5 RTM

As many reported ( including me ), ADO.NET team decided to postpone the EDM designer after Orcas/.NET 3.5 RTM. With this move they basically frozen the use of EF in real applications (wizard is very limited, typing all that XML is not really an option)
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28. april 2007 15:47

Starting with ADO.NET Entity Framework in Orcas beta 1

Orcas is bringing two similar but different LINQed ORM approaches: LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework/LINQ to Entities. I thought that it is about time to try out the later, so I created a new project and fired up Entity Data Model (EDM) Wizard (the only
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25. april 2007 14:09

Getting Internet over FTTH (optics) isn't that easy, oh no, it is an adventure

Amazingly, Slovene national ISP Telekom (recently SIOL, my original ISP, was merged with Telekom) has really fulfilled the promise to bring fiber optics to my home. Actually, the infrastructure (cable) has been outside my doors for a month or so now.
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25. april 2007 13:15

Should prime minister distinguish between web site, blog and forum?

In a recent publication of weekly Mladina I read an article that Slovene prime minister doesn't distinguish between web site, blog and forum (they quoted a question and his answer where it is more or less obvious). At the same time, the same prime minister
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21. april 2007 13:44

Burning large files using free DVD burning software

I had to burn a ~12GB file today on Vista, not a trivial task unfortunately. Of course, I opted for burning the file to 3 DVD-Rs. First I made 3 files that matched maximum DVD-R size using WinRAR (if you don't need compression I strongly suggest using
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20. april 2007 8:48

Here we go, Orcas beta 1 is available for download

Soma brings us good news , as usual. Orcas beta 1 is available for download . For now the bits are available only to MSDN Subscribers, but soon they are supposed to appear on public Microsoft download site, too. Go get the bits now, fire up that VMWare
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13. april 2007 8:39

Being an MVP...

In case you wonder how does one feel being a MVP then check out this video: http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=9fe51aa8-2c13-47f6-9d96-ba109ce014f1&wa=wsignin1.0 Note: You'll have to sign in to Soapbox. UPDATE: Here is the same video from YouTube
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8. april 2007 23:37

Our police knows everything

Last month there were two thefts from people connected to Slovene president Janez Drnovšek. Each time there was a computer (with possibly sensitive data) stolen among other minor valuable things. After first theft the police immediately issued a notice
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8. april 2007 22:39

Is Expression Web Designer good for designing asp.net 2.0 applications?

Expression Web Designer (EWD) is supposed to be a designer's tool for designing asp.net 2.0 applications. It has other roles but working on asp.net 2.0 applications is what interests me currently. So I tried running EWD on a real asp.net 2.0 project.
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