Posts Tagged ‘ C# ’
Kingsley Idehen has again graciously given LinqToRdf some much needed link-love. He mentioned it in a post that was primarily concerned with the issues of mapping between the ontology, relational and object domains. His assertion is that LinqtoRdf, being an offshoot of an ORM related initiative, is reversing the natural order of mappings. He believes [ READ MORE ]
I’m very pleased to announce the release of version 0.8 of LinqToRdf. This release is significant for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because it provides a preview release of RdfMetal and secondly because it is the first release containing changes contributed by someone other than yours truly. The changes in this instance being provided by [ READ MORE ]
UPDATE: The original code for this post, that used to be available via a link on this page, is no longer available. I’m afraid that if you want to try this one out, you’ll have to piece it together using the snippets contained in this post. Sorry for the inconvenience – blame it on ISP [ READ MORE ]
I’ve just uploaded LinqToRdf v0.6 with improved designer support for Visual Studio .NET 2008. The release includes the following high-points: LinqToRdf Designer and VS.NET 2008 extension completely rewritten LinqToRdf Installer now includes the installer of LinqToRdf Designer (at no extra cost) Project and Item templates now installed as part of LinqToRdf Designer Generated object and [ READ MORE ]
This is the second in a series on the basics of functional programming using C#. My topic today is one I touched on last time, when I described the rights and privileges of a function as a first class citizen. I'm going to explore Higher-Order Functions this time. Higher-Order Functions are functions that themselves take or return functions. Meta-functions, if you like[ READ MORE ]
Functional Programming is probably simpler than you think. It's based on the idea that there is often very little distinction between programs an data. This post explores the basic techniques of functional programming and demonstrates their use in C#[ READ MORE ]
The third release of LinqToRdf has been uploaded to GoogleCode. Go to the project web site for links to the latest release. LinqToRdf Changes: - support for SPARQL type casting - numerous bug fixes - better support for identity projections - more SPARQL relational operators - latest versions of SemWeb & SPARQL Engine, incorporating recent [ READ MORE ]
Olmo made a very worthwhile suggestion on the LINQ forums recently. His suggestion was for a new operator to be added to the C# language to allow us to do away with the following kind of pesky construct: instead he suggested a new ?. operator so that we could produce something like this: and at [ READ MORE ]
I should have brought the code up to date weeks back – but other things got in the way. Still – all the unit tests are in the green. And the code has been minimally converted over to the new .NET 3.5 framework. I say ‘minimally’ because with the introduction of beta 2 there is [ READ MORE ]
I thought it was worth describing this configuration solution, since it was so neat, and easy, and had all of the benefits of text based configuration and strongly typed inline configuration[ READ MORE ]
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