I am sure most of us have heard about LINQ (Language Integrated Query), DLINQ (Data) and XLINQ (XML). Today I came across this new thing called ‘BLINQ’. It seems to be an interesting tool. Now the obvious question is: What is BLINQ?
“Blinq is a tool for generating ASP.NET websites for displaying, creating, and manipulating data based on database schema. Just point Blinq at a SQL database and it will create a website with pages that display sorted and paged data, allow you to update or delete records, create new records, and follow relationships between tables in your database. You don’t need to write SQL queries to use Blinq; LINQ will generate optimized queries for you that request just the data you want to show. Blinq uses the May LINQ Community Tech Preview to access data. The code Blinq creates is simple and easy to customize to fit your needs. Everything in the website Blinq creates is meant as a starting point for a website that meets your needs perfectly, so have fun customizing the pages, experimenting with the code, and making it yours!” – This is the overview given on the asp.net web site. You can go ahead and download Blinq from the very same site.
Do let me know your comments on the usefulness of this tool, once you have tried it out.
Yesterday I had posted an entry on Google Notebook on my blog. While I was writing the entry, I was thinking whether Microsoft had an answer to this application. It turns out that Microsoft had already thought about this scenario, wherein people would have to collect information entities in the form of notes, audio, video, documents etc. and store all of these at a centralized location for a quick and efficient retrieval at a later point in time; much earlier. Thus came up this product which they called ‘OneNote’. Thanks to my friend at Microsoft who pointed out this product to me. Not many of us are aware of this product and its features, I feel.
OneNote 2003 was a new program in the Microsoft Office System that enabled users to capture, organize, and reuse notes on laptop computers, desktop computers, or Tablet PCs. It gave you one place to store all your notes and the freedom to work with them however you want to. OneNote 2003 also helped you in capturing information in multiple ways and then let you organize and use it according to your needs.
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, the next version of OneNote, is a digital notebook that provides a flexible way to gather and organize your notes and information, powerful search capabilities so you can find what you’re looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks for teams to work together more effectively. (more…)
