The presenter at my local .NET user group was writing a LINQ query during his session last month when I asked him, “How did we ever live without LINQ?” “I have no idea,” he replied. It’s true. Since it was introduced in Visual Studio 2008, LINQ has made such a difference in how we code [...]
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Data Points: LINQ Projection Queries and Alternatives in WCF Services
Posted by james on October 13, 2011
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Data Points: Entity Framework Preview: code first, ObjectSet and DbContext
Posted by james on October 8, 2011
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While the Entity Framework (EF) 4 was still in beta, the development team began work on another way to use it. We had the database-first way of creating a model (by reverse engineering a database into an Entity Data Model) and the new EF 4 model-first feature (define an Entity Data Model, then create the [...]
Data Points: Building An Out-of-Browser Client With Silverlight 3
Posted by james on September 10, 2011
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Building An Out-of-Browser Client With Silverlight 3This article is based on prerelease versions of Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend.Silverlight 3 applications are no longer restricted to running in a browser. They can be run in a browser or it they can be detached from the browser and run from the desktop. These out-of-browser applications allow [...]
Data Points: Server-Side Paging with the Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC 3
Posted by james on September 2, 2011
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In my February Data Points column, I showed off the jQuery DataTables plug-in and its ability to seamlessly handle huge amounts of data on the client side. This works well with Web applications where you want to slice and dice large amounts of data. This month, I’ll focus on using queries that return smaller payloads [...]
Data Points: Handling Data Concurrency Using ADO.NET, Part 2
Posted by james on August 30, 2011
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Handling Data Concurrency Using ADO.NET, Part 2Code download available at: DataPoints0410.exe (145 KB) Browse the Code Online Enterprise development has been moving towards a discon-nected model in recent years and ADO.NET development is no exception. While the disconnected model of the ADO.NET DataSet offers great flexibility, that adaptability also means looser control over data updates [...]
Data Points: DataSet and DataTable in ADO.NET 2.0
Posted by james on August 29, 2011
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DataSet and DataTable in ADO.NET 2.0ADO.NET 2.0 sports some exciting enhancements to the core classes found in ADO.NET 1.x and introduces a variety of new classes, all of which promise to improve performance, flexibility, and efficiency. There have even been some major changes throughout the lifecycle of the pre-beta and beta versions of ADO.NET 2.0, [...]
Data Points: Composing WPF DataGrid Column Templates for a Better User Experience
Posted by james on August 21, 2011
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Recently I’ve been doing some work in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for a client. Although I’m a big believer in using third-party tools, I sometimes avoid them in order to find out what challenges lay in wait for developers who, for one reason or another, stick to using only those tools that are part of [...]
Data Points: The Entity Framework in Layered Architectures
Posted by james on August 17, 2011
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The Entity Framework In Layered ArchitecturesThis column is based on a prerelease version of the ADO.NET EntityFramework. All information herein is subject to change.When architects of an n-tiered architecture evaluate any new technology, pattern, or strategy, they have to consider how that new piece of the puzzle is going to mesh with the architecture. With [...]
Data Points: The Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block, Part 3
Posted by james on August 3, 2011
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Here is the same content in en-us.The Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block, Part 3Code download available at: DataPoints0510.exe (216 KB) Browse the Code Online E nterprise applications can have a wide variety of data update requirements. Sometimes you need to save multiple rows of changes at once within a single transaction. Other times, the [...]