Windows Client Blogs

Entity Framework - MSDN on the Big Picture

2008-07-08T05:14:00Z

MSDN Magazine has published Achieve Flexible Data Modeling With The Entity Framework , which talks about the ADO.NET Entity Framework starting from the initial motivation, then the different layers that make up the stack (including a nice if smallish Read More......(read more)

Phani's Blog

2008-07-07T23:39:00Z

In case you haven't run into it yet, Phani is an ADO.NET Data Services team member who regularly blogs interesting stuff. http://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/default.aspx Worth keeping an eye on it... Read More......(read more)

Hanselminutes Podcast 120 - The Odd Couple - A Developer and a Designer talk about working with XAML

2008-07-07T16:57:53Z

My one-hundred-and-twentieth podcast is up . In this episode, I talk to Felix, a Designer, and Richard, a Developer about their Odd Couple relationship as they create Silverlight and WPF applications. They also speak frankly about their opinions as full Read More......(read more)

Great User Experience Example in a Business Application

2008-07-07T15:00:53Z

DNR-TV has a great talk\demo with Billy Hollis on a next generation business applications in WPF and Silverlight. Billy is working with a customer to provide a temp worker to job matching services. So far the application is in WPF, but they Read More......(read more)

Alan Turing

2008-07-04T23:56:00Z

Jeff Attwood has a post on possibily the greatest man in the computing age, Alan Turing. As Jeff states during WW2 Alan helped break the enigma code and went on to become one of the fore-fathers of AI. There are several books on Alans life that are well Read More......(read more)

MbUnit v3 in Visual Studio Team System 2008

2008-07-03T16:46:00Z

One of the changes made in MbUnit v3 alpha 3 was support for the Visual Studio Team System test runner. As Jeff points out, we are the first to offer this kind of support. At the moment the support is experimental but we will be driving foward more in Read More......(read more)

WPF Composite Application Guidance is Live

2008-07-03T13:20:49Z

A very common pattern for business focused applications is the "Composite Application Pattern". Over the last few months our P&P team has been working with industry leaders and the product teams in Microsoft to develop an sample Read More......(read more)

MbUnit v3 beta 3 updates

2008-07-03T11:56:00Z

Jeff has news on a couple of updates to the MbUnit v3 beta 3 release including. R# 4.0 final support Factory attribute support Repeat and ThreadedRepeat attributes support CSV data source metadata Pex support Contract verifiers The R# 4.0 support does Read More......(read more)

Back to Basics - This is not the object you're looking...wait, oh, it is the object

2008-07-02T00:43:59Z

Downcasting is kind of something you usually want to avoid, but sometimes it's not easily avoided. It depends on the situation. Because it's not an idiom you'll find yourself doing every day, sometimes you'll forget to do it entirely and Read More......(read more)

ADO.NET Data Services Beta bits don't support complex types for service operations

2008-07-01T18:22:00Z

If you're running into this limitation, you'll see the following error message every time you access the service. The server encountered an error processing the request. The exception message is 'Method 'signature' has a return type Read More......(read more)

Loving the South African Developer Community

2008-07-01T17:12:56Z

I just got back from South Africa and I am happy to report that the .NET Developer community is very strong there. User's Group Meetings in in Johannesburg and Cape Town User group meeting in Johannesburg - thanks for setting Read More......(read more)

32

2008-06-29T21:23:00Z

I post this every year, but I was a day late this year. I turned 32 yesterday, your only as old as you feel they say, I feel about 50 :) Read More......(read more)

Displaying Data Validation Messages in WPF

2008-06-27T22:57:00Z

As you can probably tell from my last couple posts I've been working with WPF in different data scenarios. Yesterday I was playing with data validation in WPF and .NET 3.5 which is pretty slick. In this article I'll walk through how to hook up Read More......(read more)

The Everlasting Question - Should I choose VB.NET of C#

2008-06-27T12:45:44Z

I got an email last night from Eduardo. Eduardo "Love's VB.NET", but is concerned about his long term career prospects because he keeps hearing about C#. The Pie Chart from the Telerik Survey suggests that C# has surpassed VB.NET as the Read More......(read more)

Model transformation with LINQ to XML

2008-06-26T18:28:00Z

Mike Taulty has a very nice post on timestamps and concurrency in the Entity Framework. Something that I very much like, however, is how he uses all the information available in a single .edmx file, which includes the storage, mapping and conceptual models Read More......(read more)