I know many posts have been written on this subject by many people, but I am writing this one mostly for myself. I find it very useful to type my thoughts on any subject and create a sample project to help me commit more information to memory. So, here it goes. What you need to …
To continue on the topic of Velocity, I will explore versioning today. As I showed previously, you can use DataCache.Add method to add an item to cache. This, of course, requires that this item’s key was not to be found in the cache already, or an exception will be thrown. This puts a damper on …
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Somehow (I am not exactly sure how) I ended up with a lot of talks that I am doing in January. Between that and two projects I am working on simultaneously at Magenic, I have been extremely busy lately. Those two projects will continue through end of January. In January I will talking at Gwinnett …
I have worked through my first Velocity project today, and I would like to blog about the steps necessary to use caching. First, you should read my previous post and install AppFabric on your machine. I used Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 to create the solution. You can download the solution here. I create WPF …
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I downloaded Windows AppFabric Beta 1 version this week. You can find this download here. It took a few hours to install it. I could surely tell I was dealing with beta 1 of version 1 of the product. I finally installed it using new cluster option and XML configuration option. I tried SQL Server …
This is purely a bragging post 🙂 I just deployed a test application to the cloud (Microsoft Azure): http://rolodex.cloudapp.net/ Here is the technology stack for it: Windows Azure SQL Azure CSLA 3.8.1 Silverlight Entity Framework WCF Prism (Composite Application Guidance) Silverlight Toolkit I promise to write a blog entry in the near future, the steps …
I spoke at GGMUG (Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft Users Group) on Thursday. I was speaking about dynamically styling Silverlight applications using Implicit Style Manager from Silverlight Toolkit. Silverlight toolkit comes with about a dozen themes that anyone can use to style there applications. In the example I am posting I use four of them, A theme …
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At out next Atlanta Leading Edge Microsoft Users Group Rocky Lhotka will be talking about Oslo. Please visit ALEMUG.NET home page to register for this exciting event! Here are the details of this event. Microsoft code-name “Oslo” includes the ability to define your own domain specific language (DSL), a metadata repository hosted in SQL Server …
I setup an account with SQL Azure last week, and I would like to document each step I took in order. There is a lot of information on SQL Azure FAQ and Zack Owens’ blog. I still ran into some issues though, and I wanted to provide detailed instruction on how to work through them. …
I just installed CTP of entity framework 4.0 (2.0 technically). I decided to test the most advertized feature – ability to have actual foreign keys (IDs) in addition to navigation properties. The lack of this feature has been the biggest annoyance for me while working with Entity Framework for many months now. Here is the …