I participated in Code Mastery event yesterday. The event was put on by my company Magenic as an all day free community training event. It was all about CSLA. The author if this widely used framework, Rocky Lhotka himself was in attendance. He presented on two topics. Yours truly spoke on CSLA and XAML technologies. …
I am going participate in Code Mastery event that Magenic is sponsoring next week, on October 8th. Code Mastery is a series of community events that my company puts out to help developers learn more about various programming topics. The upcoming event in Atlanta is dedicated to CSLA.NET. Rocky Lhotka, author of CSLA will be …
Following the roadmap of my newest CodePlex project EF Code First Extras, I implemented support for default values as part of code-free migrations of SQL Server. Default values is something that is necessary in order to support migrations. If you are adding a new column to the table that does not allow nulls and you …
As I am working on my Entity Framework extras project, I found myself needing to determine table name in the database based on class name used with DbSet in my context. I was unable to find a way to query entity framework for this information, so I resorted to brute force approach, having to query …
You can download a number of samples for Metro style applications from MSDN Code site. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Windows-Developer-Preview-6b53adbb Enjoy.
I returned from Build conference Friday night. It was a really exciting conference in my opinion with a lot of new ideas revealed. Microsoft had kept a very tight lid on upcoming changes for many months, and none really knew what was going to be announced at the event. There were a number of speculations, …
Today was the first day of the Build Conference in Anaheim. I wanted to type my notes before going to bed. First of all, I am typing this blog post on my brand new Windows 8 tablet. No MS Word on it, so forgive all the typos. The day started with key note. You can …
Today I issued an update to my Code Plex project that will contain a number of extras for Entity Framework Code First based applications. You can find the project here. I added repository project to the solution, containing base repository classes. I had time analyze the problem some more and decided to make a few …
Surprisingly enough, I never ran into this issue, event though I worked with Silverlight for three years now. The specific issue is that some keyboard events are not echoed in KeyUp events. For example, if you subscribe to KeyUp in a textbox and you hit Backspace key, KeyUp event does not fire. This is quite …
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I recently posted on my intentions to create a migration solution for Entity Framework Code First using Red Gate tools. The initial alpha version 0.9 is now live on CodePlex. Here is how you would use the product. You have to obtain a license to Red Gate SQL Comparison SDK. If you simply would like …