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October 2007 - Posts

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

Registration is here , Agenda is here , main site is here . See you there. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:55 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:20 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments
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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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:14 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:18 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:43 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 8:18 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 21, 2007 4:47 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:57 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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; Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007 3:10 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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; Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 1:55 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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ASP.NET and MVC

Found this post on the forthcoming MVC implementation in ASP.NET to be interesting. Currently watching the video. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 3:11 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:41 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 3:46 AM by mtaulty | 12 Comments

"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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:20 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:08 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

I predict quicker boot times in the future :-)

Otherwise, these guys look to be onto a big winner. Seems to me that the way to mitigate that is to get Windows to boot quickly. Having said that, I'd never boot the OS at all (I use standby/hibernate) except there are times when it forces me to (updates Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:29 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

LINQ to SQL and WCF - Sharing types, subverting the DataContext on the client side

Ok, so this whole post probably falls into the category of "nasty hack" but it was something that I was playing with so I thought I'd share. I wrote a little bit here previously about working with LINQ to SQL in a disconnected sense and wrote about how, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:20 PM by mtaulty | 5 Comments
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The Perils of Live Demos

I did a bit of a poor talk on LINQ today. One of the reasons that it didn't go so well was that my most basic of LINQ to SQL demos wasn't working. Now, I've demo'd LINQ to SQL in "intro" form (and quite a bit beyond) maybe 20 times and it always works Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 4:28 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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.NET Framework Source Code to Ship with VS2008

Via ScottGu . I think this is a really positive step forward. For the longest time, I've thought that it's more difficult to work with .NET than it needs to be because we don't have the ability to debug into the Framework and see how things are actually Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 9:41 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

LINQ? Single Step this code...

I've written probably 10 - 20 different little applications that I try to use to highlight the differences between IQueryable and IEnumerable previously and, just recently, I've written another one. I think this is a really interesting piece of code. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 3:05 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

LINQ to Entities - Deleting

I looked at this before but here I am looking at it again because I think I got it wrong (or only half right anyway). Assume that I'm working with a default 1:1 mapping of Northwind and that I have a customer with a primary key value of "DEMO1" who also Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:20 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

LINQ to SQL - Lazily loading large property values

I hadn't seen this before - cool post :-) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2007 1:46 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments