Sam Gentile's Blog

Software Development Tools

• Linq to Sql Profiler is now in public beta - Ayende announces the public betaof a tool in the fashion of NHibernate Profiler
• Typemock Isolator 5.4.4 - The newest version of this mocking tool is out, which is mostly a maintanance release, sporting major improvements in Intellitest performance, and imporant bug fixes 
• Using Telerik OpenAccess with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 - Steven Forte shows a quick demo with Visual Studio 2010, SQL Azure, and OpenAccess.
• An Introduction to MEF - James writes an introduction to MEF, differentiating it from other IOC containers

ALT.NET

• Code Coverage: What Is It Good For - David contends  while code coverage isn't proof that our testing efforts will yield higher maintainability, it does tell us a teams commitment to a test practice.

Windows Azure/Azure Cloud Services

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 11/16/2009+
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio Beta 2, Part I - This is the first of three videos showing how Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 provides support for the development and deployment of Azure Services applications.
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio Beta 2, Part II
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio Beta 2, Part III
• On DSLs and a few other things and On "M" - Doug Purdy provides clarifications and pushback on some of the feedback from the  From “Oslo” to SQL Server Modeling, which seems to be mostly negative

Entity Framework

• LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 10/26/2009+
• Updated Feature CTP Walthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework - This post covers Code Only improvements in the CTP2 release for VS 2010 Beta2. This walkthrough shows how you can change the default model like specifying property facets and navigation property inverses as well change the default mapping by changing the default inheritance strategy and table and column names.
• Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for the Entity Framework