August 6th marks the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Coincidentally, it is also the day of the Second Annual ReMIX Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The past year has seen many changes in Microsoft strategy as well as new innovations in web and mobile development outside of Microsoft. ReMIX will catch you up …
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In my previous post I talked about general usage of SQL CE database in Mango. In this example I am going to talk about keeping the database schema updated. For example, I want to add a column to Person table from previous post. I would like to add Notes column with the following definition: …
In the past I have written about dealing with data on Windows Phone 7, including WCF Services, WCF Data Services and Isolated Storage. One thing that was missing in the initial release is native RDBMS, such as SQL CE. Luckily, Mango update that should be released later this year finally exposes SQL CE to developers. …
Entity Framework CTP was just released. It contains a large number of new features, including enumerations support and spatial types. There are also important optimization improvements, such as automatically compiled queries and SQL generation improvements. You can read more details here. Enjoy.
Atlanta Code Camp 2011 took place yesterday, Saturday, June 25 2011. I was one of the organizers of the event. The event was a success based on some preliminary feedback we gathered during the vent itself. We have over 250 people attending 54 different sessions. I did one talk – Using Code First (Code Only) …
I posted earlier on how to implement repository pattern using Entity Framework Code First, while removing a dependency on IQueryable interface. I identified an issue that still existed in that code related to sorting. Sorting is a tricky part because SortBy method on IQueryable needs to have two generic parameters: item type and property that …
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As I already mentioned, I delivered keynote at ESRI Developers Meet-up in Atlanta last week. I wanted to post my short speech, as it expresses some very important points. I talked about Microsoft developer landscape and importance of learning. Here is the speech. Please let me know what you think. ESRI Key note My name …
I started my blog here in November 2009 after moving it from Live Spaces, that since died as a project. My primary goal of starting that is to share my thoughts and experiences with other folks, vet some new ideas, and hopefully help a person or two solve the same problems I found solutions to …
I have written a number of posts on this pattern lately. One thing that I used in some of them is return IQueryable. The idea behind this is to limit the number of Select methods to one in your repository. This goal is achieved by allowing calling code to append where or order by information …
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I am doing two talks at CodeStock event on Saturday, June 2011. Tomorrow in other words . I am talking on two topics. Building ASP.NET MVC 3.0 Applications with Razor View Engine and EF Code First. Using Code First (Code Only) approach with Entity Framework Since I would like to share my slides and sample …