I make no secret about being a framework guy and a sucker for third party tools. ( I have a fuzzy warm spot for things that make me a lot of money )
Long ago, Cetin suggested Ideablade's DevForce to me but only now as I am transitioning to C# and have fallen in love with WPF and the Entity Framework am I really seeing that DevForce 6.07 and its Entity support is the wave of my future.
And most impressive is the incredible level of documentation !
And apropos of that : DevExpress has been a constant source of delight - both in their amazing documentation, training videos, samples and support.
It is a joy to see people really doing it right.
I loved what I was doing in the VFP/VFE days, but VS 2010 and these two tools have made all that seem like the days of writing Applesoft.
BTW, Julia Lerman is a goddess. She first got me excited about EF in .NET 4.0
http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/seth/archive/2010/11/08/video-julie-lerman-on-entity-framework-4.aspxGood article(s) in the always good Code Magazine :
http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0909081Her book :
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Entity-Framework-Building-Centric/dp/0596807260/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295547023&sr=1-1Her videos :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ff191186It was only after going through this stuff that I started to appreciate how cool the stuff Ideablade was doing in DevForce really is.
Hope this helps somebody else looking for "what's next"
Charles Hankey
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- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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