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 will be speaking at VS Live conference in Orlando, FL on 12/08/2011. I will be presenting the following two talks. Working with Data on Windows Phone 7 I will talk about various approaches to work with data on Windows Phone 7. I will cover all major concepts, such as local storage, OData/WCF Data Services …
If you follow my posts, you noticed that I started up WinRT database project on CodePlex. I just published as small update to it that now support data binding to list based controls in WinRT. It took actually a significant amount of pain and research, including some posts on WinRT forums. You can read my …
I have a CodePlex project for file based database for WinRT / Windows 8. You can check out this project at http://winrtdatabase.codeplex.com/ First step is to download the project and build it on your computer. Visit the download page for the latest recommended download. Unzip the source code on your machine, open it up …
As I mentioned before, I presented at VS Live conference in Redmond, WA yesterday, 10/20/2011. I presented the following two talks Working with Data on Windows Phone 7 I will talk about various approaches to work with data on Windows Phone 7. I will cover all major concepts, such as local storage, OData/WCF Data Services …
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 …
I have been thinking for a little while about the future of Entity Framework, feature set on the horizon, and trying to ascertain where I would like to concentrate my next “free time” project. If you have not been keeping up with Entity Framework, please read the last few posts on the Entity Framework design …
I have had a small number of requests to enhance the functionality of my Windows Phone 7 database project on CodePlex. In light of Mango release for WP 7 that will contain SQL CE database, I think that my project will likely be used less in just a few months. The reason being is that …