August 2007 - Mike Taulty's Blog

MSDN Events in Leeds (in association with Black Marble)

Just a bit of a "plug". The chaps from Black Marble are being kind enough to host MSDN events in Leeds and I'm going there on the 20th September with Martin to talk about .NET Framework V3.0 and .NET Framework V3.5. You can find details of the event here -...

Published Thu, Aug 30 2007 5:03 PM by mtaulty

SQLBits Community Event

The SQLBits Community Day Registration Site is now open for you to register to attend the event on the 6th October at Microsoft Campus down in Reading. You can also take a look at the sessions and vote for the 10 that you would most want to see and that will...

Published Thu, Aug 30 2007 5:11 AM by mtaulty

QuickLinks: System.AddIn and the Microsoft AddInFramework

System.AddIn in Framework V3.5 is about building hosts that load plug-in Add-Ins with functionality around discovery, isolation and lifetime management. It also tries to deal with the thorny problem of versioning one or both ends of the host<->addin relationship...

Published Thu, Aug 30 2007 4:31 AM by mtaulty

ADO.NET Entity Framework - Bringing Together A Few Previous Posts

This is just a convenience - links to the posts that I've made so far around beta 2 of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The Overview Video Entity Framework - Overview Video Note: This is also available on my Live SkyDrive in 5 pieces if that helps. "Getting Up...

Published Wed, Aug 29 2007 5:36 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EntityFramework

Viewport2DVisual3D and Friends in WPF V3.5

I'm fairly poor at 3D. I was optimistic when WPF came along because I felt it might suddenly turn me into "3D guy" but it didn't (it was, perhaps, asking a lot :-)). I can just about sit down and produce a mesh that defines a plane or (once) I managed to define...

Published Wed, Aug 29 2007 5:21 PM by mtaulty

WCF V3.5 in Partial Trust

I tried to build a WPF XBAP that called a WCF service from its partially trusted environment using VS 2008 Beta 2 and managed to make it work but there's a bit in the docs that you need to read if you're playing with this stuff. I don't have an online reference...

Published Wed, Aug 29 2007 7:16 AM by mtaulty

Entity Framework - Object Services Level. CUD with Stored Procedures.

How would you get the Entity Framework to map inserts, updates, deletes through a stored procedure layer rather than dynamically asking the underlying provider to generate INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements? I was about to write some code when I came across this...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2007 3:33 PM by mtaulty

Entity Framework - Entity Data Model Wizard and SQL CE

I was just trying to build a default EDM from the Northwind database with this wizard; and every time I got to the page above it simply exited (i.e. disappeared). I figured that I must have broken it but then I've been messing around with SQL Compact today...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2007 2:38 PM by mtaulty

Outlook Connector for Live Mail

I've been missing the ability to use Outlook in order to send/receive Live Mail for quite a while. You used to be able to do that at one time and then I think the service changed so that you couldn't. Regardless, it's back and I'm really pleased to see it back...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2007 1:09 PM by mtaulty

Office Does ClickOnce

This is the first time I tried this since getting VS 2008 Beta 2 and I can't see many blog posts out there on it (i.e. I searched for help and didn't find any) so I thought I'd share. Using Beta 2, I began a new Office project - went for Excel as Excel is my...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2007 9:12 AM by mtaulty

WorkflowServiceHost in Beta 2 - Getting to the Workflow Runtime

In Beta 1 of Fx3.5, the WorkflowServiceHost had a simple property on it called Runtime that got you to the WorkflowRuntime . Easy :-) I was just trying to move some code from B1 to B2 and realised that this property had gone and, fortunately, found this post...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2007 4:52 AM by mtaulty

Entity Framework - Object Services Level. Transactions.

How do transactions play with the Entity Framework? As a starting point, if I do something like; static void Main( string [] args) { using (NorthwindContext ctx = new NorthwindContext( "Name=NorthwindEntities" )) { foreach (Shippers s in ctx.Shippers) { s.Phone...

Published Mon, Aug 27 2007 4:49 PM by mtaulty

Entity Framework - Object Services Level. Concurrency.

If we're going to be updating or deleting records in the database then we probably care about concurrency. What happens if we've got code like this; static void Main( string [] args) { using (NorthwindContext ctx = new NorthwindContext( "Name=NorthwindEntities...

Published Mon, Aug 27 2007 4:45 PM by mtaulty

Entity Framework - Object Services Level. Deleting and ObjectStateManager.

Following the general theme of the last couple of posts ( here and here ), I thought I'd carry on and experiment with deleting. static void Main( string [] args) { using (NorthwindContext ctx = new NorthwindContext( "Name=NorthwindEntities" )) { Shippers s...

Published Mon, Aug 27 2007 4:43 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EntityFramework

Entity Framework - Object Services Level. Updating and ObjectStateManager.

Following on from the previous post I wanted to apply a similar approach with updating data. If I go and grab the first Shippers record from my store; using (NorthwindContext ctx = new NorthwindContext( "Name=NorthwindEntities" )) { Shippers single = ctx.Shippers...

Published Mon, Aug 27 2007 4:41 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EntityFramework

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MSDN Events in Leeds (in association with Black Marble)

SQLBits Community Event

QuickLinks: System.AddIn and the Microsoft AddInFramework

ADO.NET Entity Framework - Bringing Together A Few Previous Posts

Viewport2DVisual3D and Friends in WPF V3.5

WCF V3.5 in Partial Trust

Entity Framework - Object Services Level. CUD with Stored Procedures.

Entity Framework - Entity Data Model Wizard and SQL CE

Outlook Connector for Live Mail

Office Does ClickOnce

WorkflowServiceHost in Beta 2 - Getting to the Workflow Runtime

Entity Framework - Object Services Level. Transactions.

Entity Framework - Object Services Level. Concurrency.

Entity Framework - Object Services Level. Deleting and ObjectStateManager.

Entity Framework - Object Services Level. Updating and ObjectStateManager.