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Book Review: Programming Entity Framework

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:15:53 GMT

A Review on Programming Entity Framework Book.

KiGG 3.0 Released

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:24:52 GMT

Yesterday we released KiGG 3.0 and baselined the source code for version 3. No major changes in this release. We upgraded to ASP.Net MVC 2.0 on .Net 3.5 SP1 & VS2008.

Book Review: Microsoft Entity Framework in Action

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:20:15 GMT

I highly recommend this book. No further knowledge about Entity Framework is required. So you don't have to know anything about EF1 in order to read and gain benefit of this book. Great effort spent on this book by the authors and the publisher. You'll get a great value with reasonable amount of money compared to the information provided in this book.

Basic Introduction to Algorithms session at Alazhar University

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:26:52 GMT

I had a chance this week to do a simple basic presentation about algorithms to undergraduate students of Computer Engineering in Alazhar University in Cairo.

Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:22:33 GMT

Fifth part is about 9:45 min in length. Part 5. Covers EDM -Entity Data Model- showing its elements (SSDL, CSDL & MSL). Also this screencast shows how to query your conceptual model using LINQ to Entities.

Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Part 4

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:33:31 GMT

Fourth part is about 10 min in length. Covers how to implement table per hierarchy inheritance model (TPH) with Entity Framework 4.0

Mindscape releases NHibernate Designer for VS2010

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:00:52 GMT

Mindscape, developers of the LightSpeed ORM have released a visual designer for NHibernate users. Leveraging their years of developing a Visual Studio integrated model designer for LightSpeed, the NHibernate Designer means developers can quickly and easily start working with their NHibernate solutions. Supports full database synchronization, model first and data base first development models.

The New Web App Architecture: ASP.NET MVC 3, jQuery Templating with PU

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:00:52 GMT

Good overview of using JSON bindings in MVC 3 preview with jQuery template rendering using PURE

HTML5 Support In Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:45:52 GMT

I was trying to play around with HTML5 assuming that VS 2010 had shipped with HTML5 support but to my dismay it was not the case. Bummer! So I did a bit of homework and came up with an easy workaround.

7 Minutes from Install to your working EntitySpaces Architecture

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:00:52 GMT

7 Minutes from Install to your working EntitySpaces Architecture, no kidding, no modeling, no XML files, no BS

ActiPro SyntaxEditor discussion of forthcoming grammar/AST framework

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:15:52 GMT

In the previous post, we gave an overview about what we'll be covering in this multi-part walkthrough of the next generation grammar/AST framework we're developing for SyntaxEditor, our code editor control. Today's post will dive right into a grammar and the building blocks needed to create one.

What is Silverlight

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:45:52 GMT

In this article I attempted to explain what Silverlight is and how it fits into the web spectrum. This article explains how Silverlight fits in Building Business Applications. This article demonstrates the programming model for Silverlight. This article will be very helpful for the beginners who want to know and start development on Silverlight projects, if you are already working on Silverlight you will find complete understanding of Silverlight Introduction.

Getting rid of null checks in property chains with - but not limited t

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:30:52 GMT

This article explains how to get rid of the annoying null checks you often have to do before you can evaluate expressions like Order.Customer.Address.ZipCode safely. The provided code builds and compiles an expression tree that does the job in an elegant and well performing manner. Specific extension methods for AutoMapper and S#arpArchitecture are provided as well.

Computed Column - PERSISTED and Performance

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:15:52 GMT

Did you know computed columns are computed at run time? Yes or No? If yes, you know the answer of following question: Is it better with performance or not? If no, go on and read it...

Introduction to BINARY_CHECKSUM and Working Example

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:00:52 GMT

If any row has any value changed, this function can be used to figure out if the values are changed in the rows. However, if the row is changed from A to B and once again changed back to A, the BINARY_CHECKSUM cannot be used to detect the changes. Let us see quick example of the of same. Learn the trick!

TeamPulse - Telerik's agile project management tools

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:15:52 GMT

Watch a video showing how to improve your team productivity with TeamPulse - Telerik's agile project management tools that enable software teams to capture requirements, plan and measure results, and analyze the project state.

Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts by ScottGu

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:15:52 GMT

Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters. These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice "cheat sheet" tables that can help you quickly lookup (and eventually memorize) common keystroke commands within Visual Studio.

Styles in Silverlight: Inheritance, Precedence & Other Advanced Topics

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:00:52 GMT

This article focuses on some more advanced topics that are handy when building more complex applications: re-using the same styles for different types, style inheritance, style precedence and style setter precedence.

SQL Server - Count(*) or Count(1) ? - Which is better?

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:00:52 GMT

Every so often on the on-line forums, the question of : Which is better Count(*) or Count(1) ? will occur. So can it categorically be proved than one is better than the other ? What we need to do is populate a table and use both count(*) and count(1) and see if we get any performance difference between the two.

SELECT * FROM dual - Dual Equivalent in SQL Server

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:15:52 GMT

This blog post is for all the Oracle developers who keep on asking for the lack of "dual" table in SQL Server. Here is a quick note about DUAL table, in an easy question-and-answer format.

Building Great Windows 7 Apps

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:52 GMT

Jason Zander (GM, Visual Studio, Microsoft) gives a tour through some of Visual Studio 2010's new features, and how building great Windows 7 apps has never been easier.

Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:13:13 GMT

Third part is about 8:20 min in length. Covers how to use stored procedures with EF4 to do CRUD operations on the database. The demo shows how to do mapping to existing stored procedures. The Demo also shows how to use IntilleTrace to view executed statements made by EF object services.

Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:41:42 GMT

About Part 2 Second part is about 6:30 min in length. Covers Object Services and how to do CRUD operations using EF 4.0 object services. The demo explores EF change tracking capabilities. The demo also shows how to map return result of a stored procedure to existing entity in your EDM.

Mahhala - Fluent Ribbon Control Suite

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:52 GMT

A article about the creator of the Fluent Ribbon Control Suite! One of the most complete implementations of the Office style Ribbon control

SortedSet(T) another collection in .NET 4.0

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:01:23 GMT

With SortedSet(T) we have another specialized built in collection in the base class library. SortedSet(T) is the solution if you need a list of unique items which should stay sorted.