Development With A Dot

Remember COM+? Well, it is still around, and, in the days of WCF, it still usefull in certain scenarios, mostly because of the services COM+ offers OOTB (transactions, synchronization, object pooling, etc). For those of you that don't know how, I'm gonna demonstrate how you can expose an ordinary .NET class into both a COM+ component and a regular WCF service. Make sure you have Windows SDK 6.x or greater installed.

Updated for NHibernate

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Slyce announced yesterday that Visual NHibernate will be officially launched on October 20th, so the beta period discount (30%) ends there. Hurry up if you want to take advantage of the discount!

Glimmer allows you to easily create interactive elements on your web pages by harnessing the power of the jQuery library. Without having to hand-craft your JavaScript code, you can use Glimmer’s wizards to generate jQuery scripts for common interactive scenarios. Glimmer also has an advanced mode, providing a design surface for creating jQuery effects based on your existing HTML and CSS.

Well, BizTalk 2010 has arrived. This time, you the Developer version is fully featured and free for use in non comercial scenarios. Here are some must-have links, check out specially the Training Kit, and, of course, the Developer Edition download:

LINQ to SQL, shamelesly, does not have a Detach method, like most other O/RMs. In one particular case, I needed one - or, at least, I thought I did - so I went to write one, which wouldn't require me to use a base class. Thanks to Reflector, here's what I came up with (only tested it in version 1, not 4):