Wednesday, June 06, 2007 - Posts

posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:07 PM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

LINQ (to XSD)

One of the things that I've done in introducing LINQ at various talks that I've given over the past 12 months or so is to talk about how LINQ is meant to get us nearer to data. I tend to put up a slide of how we do data access today and I usually drone Read More
posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:22 PM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

PhotoSynth for "How We Built Britain"

Via Dave Oliver's Blog, I really like this. I've not actually seen the programme at this point but I just had a good fly around Ely Cathedral which I've never visited. I saw a trailer for the programme this evening and spotted a really curious "triangular" Read More
posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:58 PM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

CAcropolisDocument* pDoc = (CAcropolisDocument*)this.GetDocument();

Is Acropolis MFC for the 21st century? I've watched the introductory video and that's all I know about it right now but it did feel a bit like returning to MFC (note - that's not meant to be pejorative, I quite liked MFC). Either way - nice to hear a Read More
posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:15 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

LINQ to SQL & Deferred Loading

Chris asked me via mail how you can avoid doing deferred loading in LINQ to SQL and I realised that I hadn't really explained this too well in the video that I made on it :-) So, here's a bit more. Imagine that I've got mapping for enough of the Northwind Read More
posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:06 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Open XML SDK

Via MikeO the announcement of the Open XML SDK sounds like a very positive move forward; Brian Jones- Open XML Formats Haven't played with it just yet but, to me, some kind of OM needs layering on top of the core XML format because otherwise it Read More