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Adding support for SQLite to a Windows Phone app is actually very easy. Vici CoolStorage, an open-source data access layer and ORM, allows you to add local SQLite db access to your Windows Phone app with just a few lines of code, even if you don’t want to use the ORM features at all.

Most people believe dogfooding is the perfect way of ensuring the quality of the software you’re creating. I couldn’t agree more. The only problem is that when you use your own software, you always have the feeling that it’s not quite “done”. There’s always something that you can do better, always something that can be [...]

Time for an update on the state of ProMesh.NET, the open-source MVC Web Application framework I started a few years ago. The last public release was almost 7 months ago, and a lot has been changed since then. The original plan was to create a version 1.5, but I decided against that and made it [...]

It has been almost one year since the last public release of CoolStorage.NET (“cool” open-source object mapper for .NET 2.0), but this doesn’t mean the product was dead. A lot of people regularly downloaded the latest builds from CodePlex and I received a lot of great feedback, which finally lead to the release of version [...]