Category Archives: Technical

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 →

Microsoft has just released a full-fledged data grid for WPF, along with date picker and calendar controls. There is also a WPF Office Ribbon control. To get the binaries (and source code!), go here: http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=15598 Enjoy.

For anyone unable to attend the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week in Los Angeles, it is possible to view live recordings of the sessions here: https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx Just select the session you want to view, and then click the … Continue reading →

The nice thing about WCF is its ability to reach all types of clients, including those set up for communication with a traditional ASMX web service. In many cases, those clients reference a URL ending with an .asmx extension, and … Continue reading →

There are a couple of gotchas when managing concurrency issues with LINQ to SQL. First, when you catch a ChangeConflictException and allow the other user’s changes to win by calling ResolveAll on the DataContext’s ChangeConflicts property and passing RefreshMode.OverwriteCurrentValues, other … Continue reading →

I just found a great post on how to format code sections in a WordPress blog: http://www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/blog/2008/01/07/give-your-blog-code-the-visual-studio-look Now the code in my blog should look a lot prettier. static void Foo() { // This is a comment Console.WriteLine("Print something to … Continue reading →

I’ve been using NOD32 as my anti-virus for quite some time now, and I’ve been quite pleased with it. For the most part it runs silently in the background and does not impact system performance. However, I’ve discovered there are … Continue reading →

If you’ve been programming WCF for a while, you’re probably used to the convenience of using the proxy class generated by svcutil.exe when you add a Service Reference to a Visual Studio project. You’re also probably used to creating the … Continue reading →

If you are attending the Microsoft TechEd Conference taking place June 2-6, 2008 in Orlando, Florida, if even if you’re not, this is the place where you can get slides, code samples and hands-on labs for my presentation on “Real-World … Continue reading →

In case you haven’t yet discovered them, there are some very good code samples that come with Visual Studio 2008. To find them, simply select the Help menu and choose Samples. You’ll then see a start page for the samples. … Continue reading →