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May 2008 - Posts

ADO.NET Data Services - Concurrency in Action

Just like for batching, there's a great explanation of how concurrency looks in ADO.NET Data Services up here so this is just a basic example. If I take the "Hello World" style service that I built back here then it does nothing about concurrency checking Read More...
Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 6:59 AM by mtaulty | 7 Comments

ADO.NET Data Services - Batching in Action

I did a talk on Data Services at DevDays, Amsterdam last week and so I had to take a rather speedy look at batching support as that had been added to the VS 2008 Sp1 bits since the previous preview. Batching is explained up here but here's just a little Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 12:06 PM by mtaulty | 6 Comments

PDC 2008

The website is live and it's running with Silverlight :-) http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ If I use this bling as my desktop; http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Social/Bling.aspx where it says "Meet Me in Los Angeles" then does that mean that I get to go to PDC? Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:34 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

Authenticating with ADO.NET Data Services

One of the questions that people ask when they've seen ADO.NET Data Services and its facilities for surfacing your data over REST is; So, how do I secure this? There's a number of aspects to securing these systems - off the top of my head we might want Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:22 AM by mtaulty | 17 Comments

DevDays, Amsterdam

I just got back from DevDays, Amsterdam where I spent the last couple of days delivering some sessions on; ADO.NET Entity Framework ( PPTX , PPT , PDF ) ADO.NET Data Services ( PPTX , PPT , PDF ) LINQ to XML ( PPTX , PPT , PDF ) I just want to say thanks Read More...
Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 11:09 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

"When Do Queries Execute"

Julie's got a great post about when stored procedures execute when using LINQ to Entities . It made me think about LINQ to SQL where if I've got something like; using (NorthwindDataContext ctx = new NorthwindDataContext()) { var query = ctx.GetCustomersByCountry( Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:18 AM by mtaulty | 4 Comments
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ADO.NET Data Services and the Missing DataWebKeyAttribute

If you've hit this post it's probably because you've been reading the Service Pack 1 documentation for Data Services and you've been trying to find the elusive DataWebKeyAttribute that the docs mention. As far as I can tell, it's not there. You need to Read More...
Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 1:42 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments
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VS 2008 Service Pack 1 - Docs and Installation

Firstly, the simple stuff. If you've not come across them yet then the documentation for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is up here; Home Page Entity Framework Data Services I also find this page extremely useful as I've been asking for it for many Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 2:55 AM by mtaulty | 7 Comments

50 New Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Screencasts

In my "spare time" I've been recording some screencasts about Silverlight 2 Beta 1 along with my colleague Mike . This managed to reach critical mass in that we've now built up a list of 50 screencasts so I thought it was definitely time to share rather Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:34 AM by mtaulty | 27 Comments

VS 2008 Sp1 - Want Versus Need

The Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 dilemma. I want to be able to continue to do Silverlight 2 Beta 1 development. I need to install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 for Entity Framework and Data Services. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:15 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

VS 2008 Sp1 Beta Links

Just links.... ScottGu Soma Entity Framework Data Services Download Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:54 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

DevDays Amsterdam & Events

I will be at DevDays in Amsterdam the week after this ( i.e. the 22nd and 23rd May ) doing some sessions on; LINQ to XML ADO.NET Entity Framework ADO.NET Data Services It would be nice to see you there if you're coming along. It's been a little bit of Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 2:59 PM by mtaulty | 4 Comments

Mocking LINQ to SQL

Matt Warren has an "interesting" post on how you could hack your way to a mocked implementation of LINQ to SQL - if I had a pound for every time someone's asked me how to do this then I'd have at least 3 pounds :-) Seriously though, there is interest Read More...
Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 8:21 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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Silverlight - Healthcare Demo

Interesting demonstration app up here; http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/ put together by some of the MCS guys in the UK as far as I know. The terminology is a bit weird ( "Patient Journey?" ) but the app's quite cool as a playpen for Silverlight Read More...
Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 8:11 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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"I Didn't Do It"

Not guilty . Never touched it. Absolutely nothing to do with me although I did receive some slightly strongly worded mails from some internal IT folks looking for the real culprit :-) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:03 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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Uploading Videos to Silverlight Streaming

I wanted to upload some videos to Silverlight Streaming. There's an area of the admin site that says "Manage Videos" but, unfortunately, it only lets you upload one video at a time through the web page so that could prove painful if you've a few videos. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:43 AM by mtaulty | 3 Comments

Living with Live

I've been trying to use Live Services a little this week and I've been struggling somewhat and it seems to mostly come down to URLs. I've got a Silverlight app which plays some videos. I don't want the burden of hosting those videos though for either Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:48 AM by mtaulty | 5 Comments
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Silverlight 2 - WCF and MaxMessageReceivedSize

I tried specifying a MaxMessageReceivedSize in my config for a Silverlight WCF proxy today and it didn't seem to be getting picked up. Not sure what's going on there but if it helps anyone at any point then I just ended up doing this in code; ImageServiceClient Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:43 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments