Week ago i started a series of blog posts about coding standards and best practices and i will be posting those post between my personal and Integrant blogs, as one of the most things i love about Integrant is that all the developers are concerned about using coding standards and best practices and approaches, As best practices and coding standards works like a contract between the developers to ensure maintainability, readability, performance and usability, for example I’m writing a piece of ... [More]

Telerik first official release of the Data Services Wizard, but with more many new features, After Telerik release of OpenAccess ORM Q1 2010 , there were many issues come out  with DSW, due great changes to the core of the ORM, having a new feature of Domain Model, and changes in the assembly names made it impossible to work with DSW of the new version of OpenAccess, So Telerik OpenAccess DSW team, fixed this add the proper enhancement and enable the wizard to work with the new Domain Mo... [More]

This video simply demonstrates how to use Telerik OpenAccess Data Services wizard to generate WCF endpoints WCF service Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1-WCF from Stephen Forte on Vimeo.

Telerik released a new CTP that fixes most of the bugs has been issued in the August CTP like 1- there were no way to select property to be Title and Summary for the Atom Feed 2- the application is working only on a specific version of Telerik OpenAccess So what they add new is The Automatic Version Selection for Telerik OpenAccess , through saving different version of Telerik OpenAccess in version store and load them when needed on the fly, and the second feature was adding a property sele... [More]

In this video I'm simply demonstrating how to generate Astoria service from pre-generated Telerik OpenAccess Entities using Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard, I hope you enjoy it, please send me your comments!

The Microsoft Oslo platform is a new model driven development paradigm. Developers can model their applications using the new M language and store their M code on disk or move their M to the repository in order to share their models and metadata with the rest of their organization.  As applications evolve, their models evolve. Developers will now have new versions of their M code. The Telerik Oslo Comparison and Migration Tool allows developers using “May CTP” to compare two M source code ... [More]

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Iris Generator is a code generator which is meant to be flexible enough to fit many generation scenario. To do so, Iris Generator is based on a modular architecture. Each module (or plug-in) fit a peculiar need. It is then easy to reuse a module in another generation process.   You can download it from CodePlex.com : http://irisgenerator.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=8092   The 1.0.2 version includes : A SQL Server 2005 Database analyzer. It transform... [More]

Unit test is one of power testing methodology for developers code, and its easy , and i as a .net developer , i like that is embedded in VS, by single click you can create a unit test function. If you are working with agile and you have non-stop changing requests, new features and of course bugs, there are no  way of not using strong unit-tests, it will always raise a flag, that says MY CODE IS OK, it simply ensure that you have more stable deliveries. In any company, we always care about... [More]