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Visual Studio LightSwitch Beyond the Basics

Before you make up your mind about LightSwitch prior to beta release, watch the new video on Channel 9 . Before you decide that LightSwitch is for non-developers, watch Joe Binder in this video extend a LightSwitch application with a Silverlight user control and a custom WCF RIA Service. The key point...

Posted to Tyler Jensen's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2010
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unfairly Judged Before Beta Released

Two days ago, Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio LightSwitch. I heard about it first on Somasegar's blog and have followed the chatter and the growing list of blog posts and comments. I watched the Channel 9 preview video and the VS Live keynote video introducing LightSwitch. And then I watched them...

Posted to Tyler Jensen's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-05-2010
Add Reference Search with Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools

My absolute favorite feature of Visual Studio 2010, so far, is the javascript Intellisense support via the <reference> tag. Add the following line to your .js file and you get jQuery Intellisense. /// <reference path="/scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js" /> My second favorite feature, so far...

Posted to Tyler Jensen's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-10-2010
Google’s Folly

If you leave your door unlocked and someone enters your house for nefarious purposes, can you blame your lock manufacturer? Will you switch to a new brand of lock? Or if you open the door and pickup the the strange package you weren’t expecting from your doorstep, take it into your home and open it,...

Posted to Tyler Jensen's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-01-2010
Convert Pressure to Deliver into Positive Energy and Thinking

Lately I've become alarmed at the negative level of my thinking at times with respect to my work which can then spill over into my personal life. I've been wondering how I can more consistently harness all the latent energy in the pressure to deliver within the constraints of limited resources...

Posted to Tyler Jensen's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-24-2010
Analysis Paralysis: Ten Strategies for Getting Off the Thought Pot

Do you have a hard time making decisions? Even the most decisive of us can get caught in the headlights of the oncoming project train, unable to choose left, right or straight ahead. Here’s a few strategies that I’ve found useful and sometimes forgotten about while stuck on the software development analysis...

Posted to Tyler Jensen's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-12-2010
Why I Would Like to Work for Warren Buffett

In his annual letter to shareholders , Warren Buffett wrote (emphasis added): “We tend to let our many subsidiaries operate on their own, without our supervising and monitoring them to any degree. That means we are sometimes late in spotting management problems and that both operating and capital decisions...

Posted to Tyler Jensen's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-16-2010
Critical Distinction Between IEnumerable and IQueryable in LINQ to SQL or EF

I rarely just parrot-link another blogger’s post, but I’m going to make an exception here to give props to Chris Sells and his excellent “ The Performance Implications of IEnumerable vs. IQueryable .” Chris, the venerated Microsoft Legend, walks us through a great example of where the use of IEnumerable...

Posted to Tyler Jensen's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-06-2010
Third Party UI Libraries Can Be Overkill

The question of the value of third party UI libraries has often come up in my career. At one time I was an eager advocate of using a comprehensive UI library. Now my attitude is a bit more pragmatic. Third party UI libraries are sometimes a boon and sometimes a bane. Even for well seasoned UI frameworks...

Posted to Tyler Jensen's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-01-2010
iPad is Ender’s Desk or Its Precursor

I love Orson Scott Card ’s books. My first and still all time favorite is Ender’s Game . If you’re not a fan, go read the book anyway. If you are, you already know what I’m talking about. The iPad is Ender’s desk, or perhaps its precursor. Here’s a composite I just made thinking of this concept. One...

Posted to Tyler Jensen's Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-30-2010

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