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Bullwinkle: Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat! Rocky: Again? That trick never works! Bullwinkle: This time for sure! In the last week or so, Ive heard mixed reactions to Scott Hanselma...
Brandon Satrom and I are writing a book on Metro/JS apps for Win8, with Don Box. All of the content on this page is subject to change. Table of Contents Prologue Chapter 1: Hello, Metro/JS ...
The Consumer Preview of Windows 8 (aka the Win8 beta) is now available for download, along with the matching Visual Studio 11 beta. You can download them both from the Developer Center for Metro style...
Hello, all, and welcome to the February, 2012 edition of the Telerik newsletter! As the newest employee at Telerik, Im still learning all of the good stuff were doing just in the area of developer too...
DISCLAIMER: This post is targeted at the //build/ version of the Windows Developer Preview (aka Windows 8). Things are likely to change with future releases. On your head be it. In the last post in t...
DISCLAIMER: This post is targeted at the //build/ version of the Windows Developer Preview (aka Windows 8). Things are likely to change with future releases. On your head be it. In the previous post ...
DISCLAIMER: This post is targeted at the //build/ version of the Windows Developer Preview (aka Windows 8). Things are likely to change with future releases. On your head be it. A Windows Metro style...
If you recall from REPL for the Rosyln CTP 10/2011, Ive been playing around building a little C# REPL app using Roslyn. That version was built as a Console application, but Ive refactored and rebuilt ...
In part 1 of this now multi-part series (who knew?), I discussed my initial attempts at moving my digital life into the cloud, including files, music, photos, notes, task lists, mail, contacts, calend...
With the exception of //build/, I havent really been a public part of the Microsoft developer community for about a year. So, to make up for some lost time, Im giving a talk about some of the //build/...
For years, Ive maintained a single main computer. It was the computer that was the central authority of all of the personal data Id accumulated over the years and from which it made me uncomfortable...
I have gotten to do a ton of really great things at Microsoft: I got to write a column on WPF and turn that column into not one, but two books. I got the excitement for every blog post in the ...
As I do more with Roslyn, I find I want more information about what Im parsing and how its represented in the Roslyn object model. I could, of course, have built myself a little OM dumper for Roslyn, ...
I dont know what it is, but Ive long been fascinated with using the C# syntax as a command line execution environment. It could be that PowerShell doesnt do it for me (Ive seriously tried half a doz...
I was playing around with the Telerik WPF controls the other day and I ran into an issue. It wasnt a bug, just a bet peeve of mine, so knowing that two friends of mine, Stephen Forte and Doug Seven, b...
When youre adding or updating data in your database, you really want to make sure that the data being sent to the database is good and true. Often, thats something that can be checked in the database ...
Im a big fan of the SQL Server profiler for figuring out what the Entity Framework (EF) is really doing on the wire. If youre unfamiliar with how to use the profiler, the easiest thing to do once youv...
Imagine a very simple EDM to describes web advertisements: Now imagine that Id like to build a web application to manage instances of the Ad type. If multiple people are editing ads at once, espe...
I was doing something quite innocent the other day: I was trying to provide authentication on top of the .NET 4.0 WCF Data Services (DS) on a per method basis, e.g. let folks read all they want but st...
Years ago, when I was on my T-Mobile Dash, I would purchase a new phone every quarter or so, just to see if something better had come along. Always, within a week or so, I returned it and went happily...
Ive been playing around with JavaScript a great deal lately and trying to find my way. I last programmed JS seriously about 10 years ago and its amazing to me how much the world has changed since then...
I use LINQPad all the time for a bunch of stuff, but most recently and most relevant, Ive been using it for a personal chore that isnt developer-related: Ive been using it to do budgeting. What is LI...
In the old days, the post-colonial, pre-LINQ days of yore, Id have written a one-way MD5 encryption like so: static string GetMD5String(string s) {
MD5 md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[...
At Microsoft, theres this passive-aggressive cultural thing called a forcing function, which, to put it crudely, is an engineering way for us to control the behavior of others. The idea is that you se...
There are lots of great data talks at PDC 2010, all of which are available for online viewing:
Code First Development with Entity Framework
Jeff Derstadt, Tim Laverty
Thursday, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM (GMT-7...
My mobile device is driving me crazy.
I have an iPhone 4.0. Normally when it's driving me crazy, it's standard
stuff like the battery life sucks or that the iOS 4.0.1 update didn't fix the
proximity...
Welcome to the home page for my new book. Come back soon for a sample chapter....
Often when I'm building my MVC 2 application using Visual Studio 2010, I get
the following error:
It is an error to use a section registered as
allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond applica...
The new sellsbrothers.com implementation has been a while in the making. In fact, I've had the final art in my hands
since August of 2005. I've tried several times to sit down and rebuild my
15-yea...
If you've flipped on
the POCO (Plain Ol' CLR Objects) code generation T4 templates for Entity
Framework to enable testing or just 'cuz you like the code better, you might
find that you lack the abi...
We have a series of free, day-long events we're doing around the world to show off the beauty and wonder that is the Open Data Protocol. In the morning we'll be showing you OData and in the afternoon ...
Here's what Kraig has to say about the November 2010 SQL Server Model CTP that matches the RTM of Visual Studio 2010:
A update of the SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009) that's compatible with the...
It all started innocently enough. I was implementing a "Older Posts/Newer Posts" feature for my new web site and was writing code like this:IEnumerable<Post> FilterByCategory(IEnumerable<Po...
The following is a preprint of an article for the NDC Magazine to be published in Apri.
It had been a long, hard week at work. I had my feet up and was calling my long-distance girlfriend whe...
In my previous list of WP7 user requests, I piled all of my user hopes and dreams for my new WP7 phone (delivery date: who the hell knows) onto the universe as a way to make good things happen. And al...
My dear friend Craig Andera posted an implementation of a function that descends into a directory in a "lazy" manner, i.e. you get the first descendant back right away and not after all descendants ...
When I first moved from the combination of a dumb phone and a separate music player, I had modest requirements: phone calls, MP3 playback, calendar notifications, contact management, email, camera and...
Here's how the Deep Fried guys describe episode 45: "At PDC 2009, 'Oslo' was renamed to SQL Modeling and it left a lot of developers scratching their heads. What better way to sort it all out than to...
An update of the SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009) that's compatible with Visual Studio 2010 RC has been released on the Microsoft Download Center. This release is strictly an updated version of...
When I was but a wee lad, I learned that when it came to my computer, I was often going to be waiting on something, whether it was the CPU, the IO or the memory. Now that I'm all grown up and spendin...
We are currently preparing a release of the SQL Server Modeling November 2009 CTP that will install and operate with Visual Studio Release Candidate. We expect to make this release available the first...
I was building a little WPF app to explore a hierarchical space (OData, if you must know), so of course, I was using the TreeView. And since I'm a big fan of data binding, of course I've got a hiera...
"In the 43rd episode of Deep Fried Bytes, Keith and Woody sit down at PDC 2009 with Microsoft’s Douglas Purdy to discuss all things data. Do you remember Oslo from the previous PDC event? Well ...
Rockford Lhotka has created a series of three videos showing how he has applied the SQL Server Modeling, specifically "M", to drive his well-known CSLA, a framework for building the business logic l...
Reading about Windows Azure Drive reminded me of a conversation I had when I was hanging out with my Microsoft brethren last week. We started by talking about how apps target a particular OS and how...
Soma has posted a lovely description of what's new in the Entity Framework for .NET 4.0, including:
Foreign Key support so you can add a row without requiring you to download an object just to get th...
I'm such a fan of LINQPad you don't even know. Recently Joe updated it to support Data Services and as of today, if you scroll down to the bottom of the LINQPad download page, it's been updated t...
Joe Albahari, the author of LINQPad, has added support for WCF Data Services to the 1.37.1 version beta of LINQPad. This means that you can point LINQPad at any Open Data (OData) endpoint and d...
Doug Purdy shows off three features of "Quadrant" from the Nov '09 SQL Server Modeling CTP bits in two minutes:
Access to SQL Azure databases
Creating custom views (including master detail) by mash...
I couldn't wait for the PDC, so I posted a screen shot of my favorite new three features of "M" for defining domain-specific languages (DSLs) in the November 2009 CTP of "Oslo":
Expressions on t...
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