I've done some more thinking about whether or not to use 3rd-party controls (see my original post, and this follow up) and I believe I have some "rules of thumb" that make sense now. My re-evaluation of my position on this has come because the EntitySpaces team announced that they would no longer continue the … Continue reading Should You Use 3rd-Party Controls and Frameworks? – Final Word?
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Should You Use 3rd-Party Controls and Frameworks? – Follow-Up
The very next day after I wrote my original post on using 3rd-party controls, the EntitySpaces team announced that they would no longer continue the framework and would make it open source by the end of 2012. Yikes! Now what? I have 2 choices - do nothing with my existing code and continue to use … Continue reading Should You Use 3rd-Party Controls and Frameworks? – Follow-Up
Should You Use 3rd-Party Controls and Frameworks?
When you first start programming in a language, be it .NET, PHP, JAVA, or whatever, you tend to stick with the built in functions and controls. This makes sense, because you are learning how it works, what its strengths are, and where its limitations will trip you up. But every programmer at some point will … Continue reading Should You Use 3rd-Party Controls and Frameworks?
How To Edit a Record in an ASPxGridView Bound to EntitySpaces’ esDataSource that Uses a Join
The Situation: You get an error when you try to save edits to a record in a DevExpress ASPxGridView. The grid view is bound to an EntitySpaces esDataSource, which is populated using EntitySpaces dynamic query functionality. The ES dynamic query syntax allows you to use joins between entities like this (actual code from one of … Continue reading How To Edit a Record in an ASPxGridView Bound to EntitySpaces’ esDataSource that Uses a Join
How to Troubleshoot Problems Upgrading an Existing App from EntitySpaces 2009
I am a big fan of EntitySpaces, a .NET ORM framework that I find very easy to use. When the developers upgraded the framework in 2010, they "broke" some things I used in my code. Specifically, they changed the way instantiate a new ORM entity. Entities used to have a method that looked like this... … Continue reading How to Troubleshoot Problems Upgrading an Existing App from EntitySpaces 2009
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