I presented on two topics on Tuesday 3/27/2012 at VS Live conference in Las Vegas. Entity Framework Code First – Beyond the Basics This session cover scenarios beyond the basics of EF Code First usage. Topics such as creation of object hierarchies and complex types will be discussed. Performance tips will be covered as well …
I updated Calendar control for Windows Phone 7 on CodePlex today. I added support for other languages as well as published the package to NuGet. You can added it to your Windows Phone 7 applications, both targeting 7.0 and 7.1 versions by typing the following into NuGet package manager console: Install-Package WPControls You can also …
In my previous post I gave an overview of SSDT, SQL Server Data Tools.In this post I will give some hints on refactoring of the data structures. One of the common refactoring actions is a column rename. Let’s take a look at that. Open a table in design view by double-clicking on it solution explorer. …
As you know, I have been working for Magenic for over 5 years now. One of the initiatives that we have at our company is to have company blog in addition to many consultants having their own blogs. You can check out Magenic company blog here. I recently wrote a post on SQL Server Data …
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In this post I want to summarize the tools and technologies that will be coming up in 2012 from Microsoft. All of these is public knowledge, but I wanted to outline the technologies that excite me the most. There are some conjectures and opinions of course, and some educated guesses. I am going to include …
I was working on an automated build for TFS the other day. One of the tasks I was trying to accomplish is automatically increment version number as part of the build. There is no build task I could use, so I wrote a little utility to do so and plugged into the build. I am …
In this post I will describe how to get started with running SQL Server Reporting Services on Azure. SSRS on Azure is now in beta stage, but anyone can give it a whirl. First of all, activate the service and create new report server. When you are on management portal, click on Reporting link (see …
In this blog I will describe my ideas on how to integrate SQL Server reports in ASP.NET MVC applications. I would like to have as seamless of an integration as possible given the constraints in place. For example, the only web based report viewer for SSRS is the one that has been shipping with Web …
Recently I have been doing some TFS work. One of the tasks I have completed was to implement automatic publishing to Azure from TFS build. Our goal is to automate as much as possible to make it easy for QA to test as well as ensure that every night we have a fresh build for …
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