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Nightly news, 25 June 2010

Tagged as LightSpeed, Silverlight Elements

New Zealand has shut down for the day because of the footie — even our Fearless Leader Mr Trask has taken the day off to watch it. However, his minions soldier on. Here’s this week’s batch of fixes and enhancements.

Silverlight Elements

We’ve added a new MultiCalendar control to Silverlight Elements, which allows you to display multiple months and select multiple dates, either as a range or as multiple dates or ranges.

LightSpeed

We’ve made several improvements around joins this week. You can now use multiple criteria in joins, and in LINQ you can conveniently express this by using an anonymous type as the join argument. We’ve also added some support for querying on through associations.

We’ve also provided a way to resize entities vertically in the designer, for those cases where you have an entity with very few properties but lots of associations. Vertical resizing isn’t turned on by default because it can impair usability, but if you have entities like this then you can read about the secret squirrel trick here.

Finally, we’ve released a number of minor fixes and tweaks:

• Auto through entities weren’t being given the right identity type when creating the database tables in the designer.
• We now allow migrations projects to be in solution folders rather than requiring them to be at the root.
• We’ve fixed an issue where the designer custom template path wasn’t being shown for editing if the .lsmodel file was in a subfolder. We’ve also fixed an issue with missing projects in a solution.
• Fixed support for the Visual Basic LINQ Group … By syntax.
• Some fixes for .Equals support in LINQ expressions.
• We have added partial support for discriminated derived types in assemblies other than the one which defines the base type. This only works in limited situations though — if you’ve got a more complex assembly arrangement then let us know.
• Fix for the designer not ignoring transient properties when creating a new database table.

As always, you can get the latest nightly builds from the My Account page in the store.

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Posted by Ivan Towlson on 24 June 2010

One Response to “Nightly news, 25 June 2010”

1. My account download page, for the ver 3.1 Pro, the link is to a 3.0 file.

   Please let me know when 3.1 is linked for download. The nightly build is OK – v3.1.

   Thanks,
   Earl

   earl Jun 29th, 2010

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