Data Access

Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain - Part 2

Wow, I didn't realize when I started this series that it would take me this long to get to part 2. Sorry about that guys (and ladies)! If you have forgotten...

0 replies - 1385 views - 01/20/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain - Part 1

I'm assuming that like myself, many of you out there work for companies that base much of their IT infrastructure (or at least software development tools)...

1 replies - 2124 views - 12/29/08 by justin_etheredge in News

SQL Server Scheduled Backups with NAnt

When installing and using production web applications, backup is always a must. I have written about SQL Server Backup before and this post would expend on...

0 replies - 3242 views - 11/07/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 2 Wrap-Up

Windows 7, Office 14, Live Services, Visual Studio 2010 Tuesday’s first keynote focused on several different Microsoft products and technologies: Windows 7,...

0 replies - 1234 views - 10/29/08 by alashcraft in News

Overview of Databinding in Silverlight

The goal the below code is to bind data using XAML.  So, for the example I used MLB Pitching stats for 2008, created a Pitcher object, then a...

0 replies - 2010 views - 10/09/08 by cschuman in News

Who Ever Said LINQ Predicates Need To Be Boolean-Valued?

Back in the wonderful world of LINQ. This time I’d like to highlight one of the most important properties of LINQ: its flexibility. On various occasions...

1 replies - 3314 views - 09/16/08 by bdesmet in News

CRUD Operations in ADO.NET Data Services With Custom Provider

After we learned how to consume an ADO.NET data service with a .Net client in the previous post, the next thing to learn is how to do CRUD (Create, Update...

0 replies - 2977 views - 09/11/08 by gilf in News

Say What? VB 9.0 Error “BC36593: Expression of type ‘X’ is not queryable.”

What Do VB 9.0 Error “BC36593: Expression of type ‘X’ is not queryable.” And C# 3.0 Error “CS1936: Could not find an implementation of the query...

0 replies - 1091 views - 09/09/08 by bdesmet in News

Why Data As A Service Isn't A Bad Idea

Early this week I encountered the post "Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea" written by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz in DZone. The title caught my eye...

0 replies - 1790 views - 08/21/08 by gilf in News

SelectMany: Probably The Most Powerful LINQ Operator

Hi there back again. Hope everyone is already exploiting the power of LINQ on a fairly regular basis. Okay, everyone knows by now how simple LINQ queries with...

0 replies - 4673 views - 08/20/08 by bdesmet in News

Linq : Folding Left, Right And The LINQ Aggregation Operator

A few days ago I blogged about Curry for Dummies, outlining one of the typical techniques employed in functional programming. What I didn't say back then is...

0 replies - 1566 views - 08/18/08 by bdesmet in News

Build Your SubSonic DAL With NAnt

SubSonic is a .NET ORM (object relational mapping) tool with plenty of extras. In the ORM market, it can be compared to other tool such as Linq and NHibernate....

0 replies - 1726 views - 08/11/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News

MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice - Part 3

Previously, in MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice:

1 replies - 1852 views - 07/30/08 by tomhollander in News