June 2008 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services ( 2 )

Following on from this last post , if I start to edit the data in the grid and change some value then the property value will change in the underlying class but nothing else will happen. That is, the NorthwindEntities class which is managing my data for me...

Published Mon, Jun 30 2008 3:38 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, Silverlight, DataAccess, DataServices

Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services

Someone mailed me to ask whether I had a video on how to put together Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services. I don't at the time of writing and I've also got a cold right now ( thank you, Microsoft Manchester office :-) ) so I thought I'd write something rather...

Published Mon, Jun 30 2008 11:35 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, Silverlight, DataAccess, DataServices

Entity Framework - Timestamps and Concurrency

Someone asked me today how you'd go about ensuring that timestamp columns in your database tables show up in your Entity Framework EDMX file with a Concurrency=Fixed attribute on them. That is - it's very likely that the timestamps are there on the table to...

Published Thu, Jun 26 2008 9:30 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: ADO.NET, EntityFramework

Michael Rys in London on Non-Relational Data in SQL Server

The UK, SQL Server User Group has Michael Rys delivering a talk on Monday in London. Michael's a Program Manager in SQL Server. Go here for the details and to sign up. I don't know Michael personally but I know that back when I was looking at SQL Server 2005...

Published Wed, Jun 25 2008 7:51 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: SQLServer, UKCommunities

Silverlight - Dynamic DeepZoom with MultiScaleImage and MultiScaleTileSource

One of the things that I've been meaning to experiment with around the MultiScaleImage control in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 was the ability of the control to request its image tiles from an alternate source. That is, in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 you can create your own...

Published Wed, Jun 25 2008 7:27 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Parallel Extensions for .NET

I've been meaning to spend some time looking at the Parallel Extensions for .NET (PFX) for a little while but I've never quite managed to find that time. Last week, I managed to find a couple of hours on a train to have a poke around so I'm starting to write...

Published Mon, Jun 23 2008 3:54 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET

ReMix UK

Published Mon, Jun 23 2008 3:18 AM by mtaulty

ACCU Talk on VS 2008

I'm doing a talk down at ACCU this evening on VS 2008 and, specifically, as it's a short talk focusing on what I think is the biggest single thing in VS 2008 which is what changes around the languages and LINQ. The slides for the talk are here in PPTX , PPT...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2008 1:17 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, LINQ, UKCommunities

Are you reading this from Microsoft UK?

If you work for Microsoft in the UK then please click here and hit send from a recognisable email account. I'm curious as to how many people within the UK company read my blog. Thanks :-) Updated on 19th June to change the title and say that the current response...

Published Wed, Jun 18 2008 1:56 AM by mtaulty

ADO.NET Data Services - IUpdatable on LINQ to SQL

I made an attempt at implementing IUpdatable on the current (i.e. VS 2008 Sp1 B1) bits of ADO.NET Data Services. I struggled a little bit with this. When you produce a data service you provide a class which is derived from; DataService<T> and T might...

Published Sat, Jun 14 2008 4:04 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: ADO.NET, DataAccess, DataServices

ADO.NET Data Services and LINQ to SQL - Errors Generating Proxy Code with DataSvcUtil.exe

Something that I came across today - if you're trying to surface a LINQ to SQL data source via the latest build of ADO.NET Data Services and you're running datasvcutil.exe on the metadata of the service then you might find yourself with a whole bunch of errors...

Published Fri, Jun 13 2008 4:15 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: ADO.NET, DataAccess, DataServices

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - What's New?

There's a great post up here from John Papa bringing together a number of "What's New" posts for SL 2, B2. http://johnpapa.net/all/silverlight-2-beta-2-rundown/ It lists the great resources from ScottGu, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, Steve White...

Published Mon, Jun 9 2008 3:06 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Available plus Refreshed Screencasts

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available - see http://www.silverlight.net for details on how to download it and for the list of breaking changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2. Here's where to get the runtime and the tooling ( SDK and Visual Studio ) Here's where to get...

Published Sat, Jun 7 2008 3:09 AM by mtaulty

Cube Desktop

I've been using a 3D desktop manager for a little while now. It's called CubeDesktop . Today I got V1.3.2 and I feel I can finally write a little recommendation for this tool as, previously, I had a few issues that I think are going away ( if they've not gone...

Published Fri, Jun 6 2008 5:05 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

The "To Do" List

I watched the TechEd (US Developers) Keynote just yesterday. Tech·Ed NA Developers Keynote delivered by Bill Gates and you can see more on the TechEd Online site including a changing set of videos at the bottom of the page such as these ones which popped up...

Published Thu, Jun 5 2008 8:05 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET

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