Author Archives: Tony Sneed

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About Tony Sneed

Sr. Software Solutions Architect, Hilti Global Application Software

DevelopMentor is Alive and Well

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Tony Sneed

Amazing the speed at which false rumors can fly across the Internet. One such rumor was that DevelopMentor had ceased to exist. Nothing could be further from the truth. Check out Mark Blomsma’s post: Don’t Believe Everything You Read or … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET: Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Web Page

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Tony Sneed

After installing a recent Windows Update, I was no longer able to run ASP.NET web apps using localhost. It seems the update removed an entry from my hosts file, located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc, removing the entry that maps localhost to the … Continue reading →

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T4 POCO Templates for L2S and EF

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Tony Sneed

In my MSDN Magazine article on SOA Data Access I recommend exposing Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) from the Data Access Layer (DAL). These objects should be Plain Old CLR Objects (POCOs) that are Persistent Ignorant (PI), eschewing traces of any … Continue reading →

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2008 Year in Review

Posted on December 25, 2008 by Tony Sneed

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 Tony Sneed

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 Tony Sneed

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 Tony Sneed

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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VS 2010: It’s Time to Play

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Tony Sneed

Are you ready to ride the next generation platform wave? Here are two links to get you started with Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, C# 4, F#, the Parallel Computing Platform, and many other new technologies revealed at the Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Better N-Tier Concurrency Management for the Entity Framework

Posted on November 8, 2008 by Tony Sneed

I just wrote an article for MSDN Magazine (due out in December) about developing n-tier applications for both LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework. While researching the topic, I noticed a certain awkwardness with the Entity Framework API when … Continue reading →

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The Future of LINQ to SQL Looks Bleak

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Tony Sneed

We now have a fairly clear message from Microsoft that LINQ to SQL will be deprecated in favor of the Entity Framework: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/31/clarifying-the-message-on-l2s-futures.aspx This is basically an admission that coming out with two competing relational data access technologies was not … Continue reading →

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