Monthly Archives: December 2008

2008 Year in Review

Posted on December 25, 2008 by

2008 was a great year for the Sneed family. We successfully transitioned back to America from an 18 month sabbatical in Slovakia and settled down in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, where we purchased a 5 bedroom house. Tony had … Continue reading →

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Bug in EF v.1 Limits N-Tier Scenarios

Posted on December 11, 2008 by

About a month ago I wrote a blog post on an extension method for the Entity Framework called AttachAsModified, which was offered by Danny Simmons shortly after PDC as a way to perform disconnected updates from an n-tier service. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

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Spend Baby, Spend

Posted on December 8, 2008 by

I just read a fascinating and illuminating article on the current financial crisis, as compared with the Great Depression: What Would Keynes Do? by Bruce Bartlett for Forbes Magazine. In the article the author asserts that the main problem with … Continue reading →

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Hot Off the Presses: SOA Data Access!

Posted on December 4, 2008 by

I wrote an article for the December issue of MSDN Magazine, which has just hit the streets: The title is: Flexible Data Access With LINQ To SQL And The Entity Framework, and you can download the accompanying code here. The … Continue reading →

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