Thursday, December 06, 2007 - Posts

posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:10 PM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Reported Operating System Statistics for my Domain

I found Craig's post over here interesting so here are the stats for this website for November 2007 broken down by operating system. I'd never looked at these broken down this way before so a few quick "hellos"; "Hello to all the folks visiting with Read More
posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:50 PM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

New Entity Framework Bits

Entity Framework Beta 3 is available along with a new Entity Designer (CTP 2) is out as well. These are for Visual Studio 2008 RTM and .NET Framework V3.5 RTM. Find blog posts up here; ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 Released! Entity Designer CTP2 with Read More

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posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:52 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

October 2008: PDC. Los Angeles.

I'm perhaps a little bit late on this one but PDC 2008 has been announced. Go here. I've not missed a PDC whilst I've been working at Microsoft but it's been getting progressively more difficult to get there (it's a customer event but so much happens Read More
posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 6:07 AM by mtaulty :: 2 Comments

LINQ to SQL: Asynchronously Executing Queries

I saw a question recently about how to asynchronously execute a LINQ to SQL query. Unless you want to go down the "fake async" route of pushing a query out onto the ThreadPool, you can (AFAIK) do real async work by using the GetCommand() method of the Read More

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posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:55 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

LINQ to SQL: DataContext.Translate and Anonymous Types

I was thinking about DataContext.Translate today and what it means for anonymous types. Let's say you've got something like; using (NorthwindDataContext ctx = new NorthwindDataContext()) { ctx.Connection.Open(); using (DbCommand Read More

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posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:26 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Volta & FeedSync up at Live

Couple of interesting things up at Windows Live Dev. FeedSync Volta Read More