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Astoria Online/Offline

Tantalising post from the Astoria team. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:37 PM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

SQL 2008, Filestream, Docs from VB

Someone asked me if I had a simple sample of how to read/write documents into a database table using FILESTREAM in SQL Server 2008. I set about it. Firstly, I had to find out how to switch FILESTREAM on in the RTM of SQL Server. At times like this you Read More...
Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 7:56 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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Added (Updated) ADO.NET Data Services Videos to C9

I produced a new set of short videos around ADO.NET Data Services and dropped them on to Channel 9. You can find them here; http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/UK and that list will grow as time goes in ( specifically, it'll grow if I can get the publishing Read More...
Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 4:00 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

On Entity Framework, Concurrency

This is similar but not at all identical to this post about LINQ to SQL because it's using a different framework and that has different capabilities. Someone mailed and asked how we can detect concurrency problems with Entity Framework in order to ensure Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:22 PM by mtaulty | 6 Comments

On LINQ to SQL, Concurrency and Timestamps

I came across a bit of a glitch in using timestamps for checking concurrency violations in LINQ to SQL and thought I'd share. Say I've got a table like; create table Person ( id int identity primary key , firstName nvarchar(30), lastName nvarchar(30), Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:10 PM by mtaulty | 8 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 3:38 PM by mtaulty | 3 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 Monday, June 30, 2008 11:35 AM by mtaulty | 7 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...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:30 AM by mtaulty | 1 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 Saturday, June 14, 2008 4:04 AM by mtaulty | 8 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 Friday, June 13, 2008 4:15 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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