Introduction We have a requirement at the moment to modify AD FS 3.0 (which is a role in Windows Server 2012 R2) to allow users to authenticate without having to specify the domain name. This is for two reasons – the current external system doesn’t have a requirement to prefix […]
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Introduction Hello and apologies for the long delay between articles, I am now returning to the Entity framework. Following on from the previous article (Entity Validation) I’m back to review the latest edition of the generic data access class. In the time between my original series of articles concerning disconnected […]
Hi there and happy new year. 2011 promises to be quite an interesting year, and I hope that I can continue to contribute here at Sanders Technology. To kick off the new year, I decided to revisit the Windows Workflow article I started late last year. A little while ago […]
Recently I put my mind towards developing a fairly light rules based utility for applying various logical patterns on top of some linear business data. Honestly, my initial thoughts were “oh no, not another boring rules based implementation” because we (ought to) know how boring that can be – and […]
Introduction Now if you are like me, you’ve probably had some interest in POCO (plain old CLR objects) objects for at least some time. They are an invaluable tool in the distributed systems and service oriented architecture areas, but up until now they’ve been inaccessible for those designs. In a […]
This is part of a series of entries written about Microsoft’s new SQL Azure database service and the Entity Framework v4. Following on from my previous posts (check them out before continuing) – this article assumes you have followed steps outlined in the previous posts to create various models and […]
Happy Australia Day to you! Following on from my previous posts (check them out before continuing) – this article assumes you have followed steps outlined in the previous posts to create various models and accounts etc. Part 1 – Working with Entity Framework v4 and SQL Azure Part 2 – […]
This post is the first in a series of posts on this topic. The following is a summary of the various parts. Part 1 – Working with Entity Framework v4 and SQL Azure (this post) Part 2 – Next Steps with SQL Azure Part 3 – Putting it all together […]
This is a little late – but I feel it is worth going into and you can catch up be reading (or re-reading) Part 1 located here. Just in case you are wondering “what on Earth is he babbling on about?” which is a fair and often under asked question, […]
I’m going to coin the phrase ‘Functional Transparency’ because it fits the definition. I’ve been working with functional transparency in LINQ to SQL for a few weeks now, and it seems to be working well enough to write about. The objective is to implement additional (background) functionality which is not […]
Undoubtedly, anyone who has evaluated LINQ to SQL has fond it a fairly powerful yet lightweight ORM technology which is less complex than the ADO Entity Framework yet utilizes the strength and power of Language Integrated Queries. One problem with LINQ to SQL is the auto paging feature of the […]