June 2008 - Posts

posted Monday, June 30, 2008 3:38 PM by mtaulty :: 3 Comments

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 Read More
posted Monday, June 30, 2008 11:35 AM by mtaulty :: 7 Comments

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 Read More
posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:30 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

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 Read More

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posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:51 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

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 Read More

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posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:27 AM by mtaulty :: 7 Comments

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 Read More

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posted Monday, June 23, 2008 3:54 AM by mtaulty :: 12 Comments

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 Read More

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posted Monday, June 23, 2008 3:18 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

ReMix UK

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posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:17 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

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, Read More

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posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:56 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

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 Read More
posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 4:04 AM by mtaulty :: 8 Comments

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 Read More
posted Friday, June 13, 2008 4:15 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

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 Read More
posted Monday, June 09, 2008 3:06 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

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 Read More

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posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 3:09 AM by mtaulty :: 14 Comments

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 Read More
posted Friday, June 06, 2008 5:05 PM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

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 Read More

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posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:05 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

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 Read More

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posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:23 AM by mtaulty :: 8 Comments

Authorising with ADO.NET Data Services

Once we've got a request authenticated the next thing we might want to consider is authorising those requests as they make access to data. In researching this post I found that I'd actually written about this before but hadn't been quite as complete as Read More
posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:57 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

FEST08

A quick plug. I'm speaking at the NxtGen FEST 08 day on the Microsoft Campus in Reading on Thursday of next week ( 12th ). I'm talking about ADO.NET Data Services and there's a great agenda including topics such as; Dynamic Data WPF and Data Binding Read More

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posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:12 PM by mtaulty :: 4 Comments

Silverlight Streaming Improvements

Silverlight Streaming just got a couple of improvements. One is that there's a better upload experience for video files. The other update which is more important for me is that you can now upload a WMV file to Streaming and then just reference it using Read More

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