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WPF Elements 3.0 beta

We’re pleased to announce that a beta build of WPF Elements 3.0 is now available to existing WPF Elements, WPF Property Grid and WPF Themes customers. WPF Elements is our suite of controls for Windows Presentation Foundation and in 3.0 we’re
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Ivan Towlson
tags: news products wpf elements wpf property grid
Jul 27 2010 03:24 PM
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VS File Explorer beta for Visual Studio 2010

If you’re familiar with our free Visual Studio File Explorer product, and you’ve started the move to Visual Studio 2010, you’ll no doubt be missing the Explorer integration already. (And if you’re not familiar with VS File
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Ivan Towlson
tags: news products vs file explorer
Jul 23 2010 08:51 PM
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Nightly news, 23 July 2010

We’ve been busy this week preparing WPF Elements 3.0 for release — time’s running out to grab 2.0 and lock in the current pricing — but we’ve still found time to ship a bunch of LightSpeed fixes and tweaks. Here’s
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed
Jul 23 2010 01:19 PM
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Nightly news, 16 July 2010

Did you know? According to I Write Like, the LightSpeed designer code generation templates are written in the inimitable style of H P Lovecraft. I must get JD to run up a new logo. In the meantime, here’s what’s new in the latest Mindscape
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed wpf elements
Jul 16 2010 12:42 PM
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Mindscape teams up with ComponentSource

We’re pleased to announce that ComponentSource and Mindscape have teamed up to promote Mindscape products through the ComponentSource websites and online media channels. This is great news for organisations that have reseller policies, policies
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John-Daniel Trask
tags: general news products
Jul 13 2010 06:53 PM
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WPF Elements 3.0 – Important notice for WPF customers

In the next couple of weeks we will be shipping WPF Elements 3.0, it will be the largest shake up to our WPF product line up to date and is great news for all our WPF Elements, WPF Property Grid and WPF Themes customers. Personally, I can’t wait to
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John-Daniel Trask
tags: news products wpf wpf elements
Jul 09 2010 03:20 PM
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Nightly news, 9 July 2010

Here’s the updates and fixes in the latest nightly builds. LightSpeed Added support for ToString() and Convert.ToString() in LINQ expressions Fix for aliasing issue in joins Removed some validation options from the designer for data types where
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed silverlight elements wpf elements
Jul 09 2010 12:29 PM
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Nightly news, 2 July 2010

With the football finally over (and, going by local press coverage, New Zealand having won), development has been proceeding apace at Mindscape HQ. We’re hoping to announce a couple of launches in the near future, but in the meantime, here’s
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed silverlight elements
Jul 02 2010 01:53 AM
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Nightly news, 25 June 2010

New Zealand has shut down for the day because of the footie — even our Fearless Leader Mr Trask has taken the day off to watch it. However, his minions soldier on. Here’s this week’s batch of fixes and enhancements. Silverlight Elements
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed silverlight elements
Jun 24 2010 10:42 PM
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WPF Elements gets some cool new controls

Not too long ago we packed our Silverlight Elements control suite with a ton of useful controls. Now WPF developers can feel the love too: six of these fantastic controls are now available in WPF Elements, our suite of essential controls for WPF. These
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Jason
tags: wpf elements
Jun 22 2010 12:47 AM
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Many to many associations and composite keys in LightSpeed

In LightSpeed, we model many-to-many relationships using through associations. Each instance of the many-to-many relationship is represented by an instance of a through entity, which usually has little more than references to the two entities it’s
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Ivan Towlson
tags: general lightspeed
Jun 18 2010 03:18 AM
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Nightly news, 18 June 2010

Here it is, all the new hotness from the Mindscape forge… WPF Elements We’ve been continuing to enhance WPF Elements with some of the controls from our Silverlight Elements suite. Since the last bulletin we’ve added:
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed wpf elements
Jun 18 2010 12:31 AM
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Nightly news, 11 June 2010

Lots of stuff going on at Mindscape HQ right now, but we’ve found time to deliver a few enhancements and bug fixes in the last week’s worth of nightly builds. Here’s the goodness. WPF Elements We’ve started porting some of the
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed silverlight elements wpf elements wpf property grid
Jun 11 2010 02:19 AM
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Nightly news, 4 June 2010

Another quiet week on the fixes and enhancement front: here’s what we’ve delivered in this week’s nighty builds. LightSpeed Designer support for nullable stored procedure arguments Fix for a LINQ issue using logical expressions
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed
Jun 04 2010 05:13 AM
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WPF Diagramming 2.0 Planning

We have started work on the next generation of our popular diagramming products and wanted to get some feedback from current users. Let your minds run wild with the possibilities of what would help you build some truly stunning applications with WPF
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John-Daniel Trask
tags: wpf wpf diagramming
Jun 02 2010 03:23 AM
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Large models in LightSpeed 3.1 – Part 2

In a previous post, I talked about some of the issues that arise when you want to work on a large model in a visual designer, and some enhancements in LightSpeed 3.1’s filtered views feature to get around those issues. However, a model with
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed
Jun 01 2010 02:38 AM
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Nightly news, 28 May 2010

We’ve not posted a Nightly News for a couple of weeks because we’ve been shipping releases rather than nightlies — see the Silverlight Elements 1.1 and LightSpeed 3.1 announcements. Still, here’s what’s new and not in those
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed news silverlight elements wpf diagramming
May 28 2010 05:29 AM
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Licensing: Build servers and multiple developer machines

Just a short post about our licensing policy – a scintillating topic for most, but hopefully a nice surprise for people looking at becoming a Mindscape customer :-) We have started receiving more and more requests about what our licensing allows
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John-Daniel Trask
tags: general news build server ci
May 28 2010 01:21 AM
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Large models in LightSpeed 3.1 – Part 1

Many people like to use visual designers to create domain models for a number of reasons: they save you writing boilerplate code, they make it very easy to see how entities relate to each other, and so on. However, when models become large, the visual
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed
May 27 2010 02:22 AM
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LightSpeed 3.1 released

We’re pleased to announce the release of LightSpeed 3.1, a major update to our LightSpeed domain modelling tool and object-relational mapper. LightSpeed 3.1 rolls up an number of bug fixes and minor enhancements, and adds a number of major new
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed news products
May 25 2010 06:06 AM
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Introducing Silverlight Elements 1.1

We are proud to announce the release of Silverlight Elements 1.1. In this version we have added a whole bunch of interesting new controls to add an even richer user experience to your applications. All five of our current Silverlight themes have been
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Jason
tags: products silverlight silverlight elements
May 20 2010 05:07 AM
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LightSpeed Visual Basic code generation changes

We’ve been making some changes to code generation as part of a forthcoming LightSpeed designer feature, and unfortunately it’s not been possible to complete the feature without a small change to Visual Basic code generation. The change will
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed
May 14 2010 07:26 AM
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Nightly news, 13 May 2010

A fairly brief update this week, as we’ll be making announcements about official releases in the next few days. LightSpeed The designer now supports copying and pasting multiple properties in one operation. If you’re using associations to
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed news products silverlight elements
May 13 2010 01:55 AM
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LightSpeed: VS 2010 support and the 3.1 release

It’s been almost exactly six months since we shipped LightSpeed 3.0, and in the next couple of weeks we’ll be releasing the latest and greatest version: LightSpeed 3.1. There’s a lot coming with the new release — much more than we
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John-Daniel Trask
tags: general lightspeed news products
May 07 2010 12:38 AM
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Nightly news, 5 May 2010

We’ve frequently been asked to publish change logs for our nightly builds, and although it’s not very convenient for us to make that information available on a nightly basis, we thought it would be a good idea to publish the occasional
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed news products silverlight elements
May 05 2010 07:50 AM
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SimpleDB: pulling the plug on the deprecated Query API

When Amazon introduced the SimpleDB Select API and deprecated the earlier Query API, we switched LightSpeed over to generate queries using the Select API, but left in a compatibility option to force LightSpeed to generate Query API calls instead. This
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed simpledb management tools simpledb
Apr 28 2010 05:25 AM
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Class table inheritance in LightSpeed

As we’ve discussed before, one of the big impedance mismatches between the object and relational worlds is over inheritance. Inheritance is a tremendously useful concept in object-oriented programming, but relational databases don’t have that
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed
Apr 28 2010 02:10 AM
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Introducing Visual Tools for SharePoint

With Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 being released today to MSDN subscribers it’s time to take the wraps off our latest creation: Visual Tools for SharePoint. Stunning name, very Microsoft inspired! ;-) Get Visual Tools for Sharepoint FREE The
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John-Daniel Trask
tags: beta products sharepoint visual studio 2010
Apr 23 2010 02:25 AM
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SimpleDB Management Tools for Visual Studio 2010 released

We’re pleased to announce that SimpleDB Management Tools is now available for Visual Studio 2010. VS2010 versions of our other products will follow over the coming days and weeks. SimpleDB Management tools makes it easy to work with your Amazon
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Ivan Towlson
tags: simpledb management tools
Apr 16 2010 07:01 AM
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WPF Diagramming: Connection validation and an API change

One important feature that some diagrams need is connection validation. That is, the ability to control which diagram nodes are allowed to be connected together. For example, you might want node A to be connectable only to node B. Or you may want to
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Jason
tags: products wpf wpf diagramming wpf flow diagrams
Apr 15 2010 03:50 AM
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Using T4 templates with LightSpeed

One powerful feature of the LightSpeed designer is the ability to use your own custom templates for code generation. However, some people don’t feel comfortable forking the templates. In addition, some people want to organise their files
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed
Apr 13 2010 03:58 AM
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Silverlight Elements: Scheduler Control

One of the larger controls that you will find in Silverlight Elements is the scheduler. This control is based on the calendar seen in Microsoft Outlook and allows users to manage all of their appointments. It could be used by students to record their
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Jason
tags: products silverlight silverlight elements scheduler
Apr 07 2010 07:04 AM
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Silverlight Elements: Custom PaletteColorPicker style

A few days ago we released our Silverlight Elements suite of Silverlight controls. Today we look at how to create a custom style for the Silverlight PaletteColorPicker control. The PaletteColorPicker allows users to select colors from a pre-defined
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Jason
tags: silverlight silverlight elements color picker
Apr 01 2010 06:46 AM
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Released: Mindscape Silverlight Elements!

We have now released our very first Silverlight product: Silverlight Elements, a suite of controls to add a richer user experience to your silverlight applications. Along with the controls we have included 5 themes based on the look of Microsoft Office
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Jason
tags: news products silverlight silverlight elements
Mar 30 2010 08:36 AM
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LightSpeed and LINQPad: the perfect partners

LINQPad is a justly popular tool for trying out LINQ queries — it’s a great way to quickly check how a query will behave or just to check what’s in your database. (Actually, it’s a great way to test quick code snippets whether
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed products
Mar 02 2010 08:28 AM
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Silverlight Elements now available for preview

We’re pleased to announce a technical preview release of our Silverlight Elements suite, a pack of controls for Microsoft’s Silverlight Rich Internet Application platform. Silverlight is becoming an increasingly popular solution for building
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Ivan Towlson
tags: silverlight silverlight elements
Mar 01 2010 06:29 AM
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LightSpeed support for Visual Studio 2010 RC

A quick note to those that are exploring the Visual Studio 2010 release candidate – we have published a test version of the LightSpeed designer in the online store. If you are using VS 2010 RC then head over to your account page and grab the
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John-Daniel Trask
tags: lightspeed 2010 designer
Feb 18 2010 10:06 AM
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WPF Elements 2.0 is here!

We’re proud to announce the release of WPF Elements 2.0, the latest version of our package of controls for Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF Elements 2.0 includes four great new controls to quickly provide an even richer user experience to your
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Jason
tags: wpf wpf elements
Jan 26 2010 07:11 AM
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Moving from LINQ to SQL to LightSpeed

LINQ to SQL has been a very popular technology with SQL Server users, providing far greater ease of use than previous Microsoft data access technologies and introducing many .NET developers to the concept of object-relational mapping. However, LINQ to
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Ivan Towlson
tags: lightspeed linq linq-to-sql
Jan 15 2010 03:30 AM
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The dynamic duo: LightSpeed & Azure

Recently there have been questions from LightSpeed users asking if LightSpeed works with Azure and the answer is YES!. But wait a moment, what do we really mean when we talk about “Azure”? The brand has been used to describe a whole platform
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Jeremy Boyd
tags: lightspeed products azure sql azure
Jan 14 2010 06:47 AM