Kevin Clark's Blog

Distributed Caching Solutions – Velocity is a good sign

Kevin Clark — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:22:33 +0000

Been going around different blogs which mentioned Microsoft’s Velocity in one way or another, seems like distributed caching is becoming a household name after Microsoft released Velocity. It’s a good sign that a software giant like Microsoft jumped into this arena because, i think, this is a opportunity for all the companies who were into to this domain to get out in the open.

Here is the list of few of the companies who are providing Distributed Caching in .NET

Still looking for a face to face review on all these solutions.

NCache and BizTalk Cross Referencing Example

Kevin Clark — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:09:56 +0000

trackback http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2008/09/21/125353.aspx

The High-performance PDF & XPS Engine for Your .NET and ActiveX Applications

Kevin Clark — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:28:59 +0000

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Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio

Kevin Clark — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:14:09 +0000

I got a email from DevEx and thought i might interest developers so read on…

The 11g release of Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio (ODT) includes a host of powerful new features that make Oracle and .NET development easier and faster. These features make it convenient for Microsoft Visual Studio developers to stay in Visual Studio for the entire development lifecycle. The new features detailed in this paper are available for Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio .NET 2003. This release supports Oracle Database version 9.2 or later and is also compatible with any version of the Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) that your application may currently be standardized on. The Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio is a free product that is available for download from the www.otn.oracle.com.

You can download this whitepaper from here

Flickr announces new uploading tool

Kevin Clark — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:49:12 +0000

Flickr recently releaded version 3.1.3 of their Flickr Uploadr. Its a nice tool with some very nice features.

When you first start it you have to login into your flickr account, once done, its lets you choose multiple files to be uploaded. It lets you add tags, categories plus privacy policies.

You can also do all of this offline. Overall its a great tool. must give it a try.

TierDeveloper – A FREE ORM Tool

Kevin Clark — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:28:39 +0000

TierDeveloper .NET Code Generator has now become Free Software

Alachisoft has released TierDeveloper 6.1 as free software (previous version priced at $1495/developer). TierDeveloper lets you develop major chunks of your .NET applications in a matter of hours and days instead of weeks and months. TierDeveloper is one of the most feature-rich ORM code generators in the market.

It provides you the following:

Map and generate .NET persistence and domain objects in C# and VB.NET
Design and generate custom ASP.NET and Windows Forms GUI seamlessly
Generate web services and WCF server layers and proxy client objects
Powerful Template IDE to let you customize existing or write new code generation templates
Full support for .NET 2.0/3.5 and Visual Studio 2005/2008