October 2007 - Mike Taulty's Blog

Developer Day (DDD) Number 6 Registration Site Open. 24th November, Reading.

Registration is here , Agenda is here , main site is here . See you there.

Published Wed, Oct 24 2007 4:55 AM by mtaulty

SQL 2008 - Table Valued Parameters

Hmmmmmmm. If I had a pound for every time someone has asked me in the past "What's the best way to pass an array of values into a SQL Server stored procedure" then I'd have at least 4 pounds :-) I've seen people do it with strings. I've seen people do it with...

Published Wed, Oct 24 2007 4:20 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, SQLServer

A Message from our Sponsor - TechEd Europe

Just a quick plug. I'm doing a couple of sessions at TechEd Europe which begins week commencing 5th November in Barcelona. TLA309 LINQ to XML: Using the Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Framework with XML Data XML developers have had to learn a combination...

Published Wed, Oct 24 2007 4:14 AM by mtaulty

More on Filestream in SQL 2008

I wrote a little demo around FILESTREAM in SQL 2008 so I thought I'd share - the code's a little shabby but I got to the point where it did what I wanted and so I stopped. Some days I miss not writing production code because it's very different from demo code...

Published Tue, Oct 23 2007 7:18 AM by mtaulty

The Lock Cookbook

Joe Duffy has a fantasic post over on his site with a bunch of rules around using locks in .NET (and about concurrency generally). Really liked this stuff - particularly keen on "don't call other people's code when you're holding a lock" and "don't call blocking...

Published Tue, Oct 23 2007 2:43 AM by mtaulty

SQL 2008, FILESTREAM, C++, Managed Code

I spent a bunch of time today just trying to play with the FILESTREAM option on varbinary(max ) in SQL Server 2008. There's a good intro to doing this up here but it stops short of writing code against it which is where I wanted to go. So, I've created my database...

Published Mon, Oct 22 2007 8:18 AM by mtaulty

LINQ to Entities - Customising the edmgen.exe Output

I've had this post kicking around in my inbox for a while but hadn't got round to consuming it. It talks about how the EdmGen.exe process is a wrapper for classes that exist in System.Data.Entity.Design and you can take those classes and build them into your...

Published Sun, Oct 21 2007 4:47 AM by mtaulty

VBUG Conference

Just back from the VBUG Conference where I saw a whole bunch of people incuding Dave , Oliver , Andrew , Tony , Alex , Guy , Rob , Barry and a lot more. I enjoyed it and delivered an old-favourite in the shape of a "Introduction to Workflow" session and something...

Published Thu, Oct 18 2007 4:57 PM by mtaulty

LINQ to SQL: Beta 2 to RTM Changes

Dinesh has a list of changes here . If you're using LINQ to SQL then this will have an impact on you. I'm not sure that I've 100% digested this aspect at this point so I'll need to revisit it. Actually, whilst you're there you probably also want to read; LINQ...

Published Thu, Oct 18 2007 3:10 AM by mtaulty

Anonymous Types & Read-Only Properties

I hadn't noticed this before; static void Main( string [] args) { var v = new { Prop1 = "A" , Prop2 = "B" }; v.Prop1 = "Foo" ; } Here's the error;

Published Wed, Oct 17 2007 1:55 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#

ASP.NET and MVC

Found this post on the forthcoming MVC implementation in ASP.NET to be interesting. Currently watching the video.

Published Tue, Oct 16 2007 3:11 AM by mtaulty

Interesting animation

I found this site interesting. It's not so much for the content (which is fine) but it's more for the animation that occurs when you mouse over one of the people. Not sure how that's done but I quite like it. Unfortunately, it's done with Flash rather than...

Published Tue, Oct 16 2007 2:41 AM by mtaulty

Weird Microsoft-Speak

I've noticed a peculiar trend around Microsoft lately. We seem to be inventing our own language. I was having a laugh about this with David last night where we had examples such as; "TALKING TO"... When did it become ok for people to say "Can you TALK TO Windows...

Published Fri, Oct 12 2007 3:46 AM by mtaulty

"REST", ASP.NET, WCF, Astoria

Is anyone out there building a "RESTful" (quoted as this is a very overloaded term) framework for ASP.NET ? On the "RESTful" front, there's the bits that WCF V3.5 does for you but that brings in an awful lot of framework. Then there's the work that Astoria...

Published Thu, Oct 11 2007 2:20 AM by mtaulty

DurableServices in WCF V3.5 :-(

I wrote about this once before . Let's say I'm building a service that I want to be stateless but has some notion of a session with a client. Let's say (for argument's sake) that the interface looks like this; public interface IServe { int GetFirstNumber(out...

Published Thu, Oct 11 2007 2:08 AM by mtaulty