I present, “Linq Alias Generator”

Posted on January 22nd, 2008

Here is a small project I thought others might find as useful as I have. We all know how hard it is to find a decently written schema these days especially when you inherit a project. Well why carry those ugly column names into code? This generator will create nice names for your columns while preserving the actual column name in the Linq To SQL dbml files.

This is an initial release so better things to come but it works for now. If you’d like to get involved there is a dedicated page here and a codeplex project as well.

Download from http://www.codeplex.com/linqalias/

Keep track of changes on my blog page here http://www.typemismatch.com/linq-alias/

Enjoy, -c

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MVC and Test Driven Development

Posted on December 13th, 2007

Well shortly after the release of VS 2008 Microsoft have released an MVC extension for Visual Studio. It is long overdue but never the less great to get! One funny point to note and maybe it’s just because the release is only CTP but the test framework of VS 2008 cannot test a controller out-the-box …. which is half the reason to use this pattern to start with :) … anyway, maybe it will be addressed in later releases.

Get it while its hot : http://asp.net/downloads/3.5-extensions/

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VS 2008 is here!

Posted on November 19th, 2007

I plan to write about some things you need to know about this release but right now just know that it is hitting the MSDN servers. No one is sure yet if the new MVC framework is bundled with this but if it is get ready for some goodies.

-c

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