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This post is a reply to Scott Hanselman’s post: "You’re not your code"

I accidentally removed a reply from my previous blogpost, and as this blog-engine here at weblogs.asp.net is apparently falling apart, I can't re-add it as it thought it would be wise to disable comment controls on all posts, except new ones. So I'll post the reply here as a quote and reply on it.

LLBLGen Pro has several ways to serialize / deserialize your entity data in an LLBLGen Pro Entity object:

This is a re-worked answer to Scott Hanselman's great post 'Everything's broken and nobody's upset'. I replied it below the post, but I think it deserves a post here. Scott's post is about how we seemingly accept a long list of annoyances and issues with the software we use and how we apparently ignore the fact just how broken today's software seems to be. In my answer I tried to give an answer to why that is. This answer is below.

Yesterday, Microsoft revealed that the Windows Store is now open to all developers in a wide range of countries and locations. For the people who think "wtf is the 'Windows Store'?", it's the central place where Windows 8 users will be able to find, download and purchase applications (or as we now have to say to not look like a computer illiterate: <accent style="Kentucky">aaaaappss</accent>) for Windows 8.

(This post is part of a series of posts about features of the LLBLGen Pro system)

Yesterday a user of our .net ORM Profiler tool reported that he couldn't get the snapshot recording from code feature working in a windows forms application. Snapshot recording in code means you start recording profile data from within the profiled application, and after you're done you save the snapshot as a file which you can open in the profiler UI. When using a console application it worked, but when a windows forms application was used, the snapshot was always empty: nothing was recorded.

(This post is part of a series of posts about features of the LLBLGen Pro system)