April 2009 Entries
Anyone that is working frequently with either LINQ to SQL or the Entity Framework needs to go get a copy of the Huagati DBML/EDMX tools. They plug right into Visual Studio (2008) and allow you to perform many of the tasks that you would think VS would do for you. I just recently had a new dev db get corrupted. I had no backups for it. I also had no scripts generated for it. Argh! What to do? With this tool I was able to reverse engineer my EDMX file and spit out all the SQL I needed to generate the...
I was scooting about the net the other day and landed on someone’s site that had the most fascinating tag cloud I have seen so far. The tags in this cloud revolve as though they are in a 3d sphere. When you mouse over the sphere you can move the words up down and around. Very interesting. This is a flash based control that you can feed with an XML file. Also, the source for it is readily available which makes it a tool that can be ported to just about any tab based platform. Very nice! See the home...