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
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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