Not long ago, I posed a question to the Stack Overflow community – (is there a) “Good Visio Template (or alternative) for SOA/Distributed Systems?”. Surprisingly, there was only one response! Since then, I have been recently introduced to, of all things, a Java based tool called the ‘Quick Sequence Diagram […]
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Introduction If you have a copy of Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Ultimate, you’ll likely have a menu in your Integrated Development Environment (IDE) called “Analyze”. Chances are, you might not have investigated the true potential of the profiling tools in VS 2010. This article will demonstrate usage of some […]
Now for something completely different. Recently I had the desire to build a Visual Studio 2010 solution file for a number of project files under a directory. There were many projects, and each one linked to a solution file – but I wanted a “master” solution file.. one to rule […]
Hi There, So chances are if you’ve read my subsequent posts, you’ll get the feeling that I’m working with some legacy web service applications. You’d be right, and the challenge of Web Service Extensions (WSE) 3.0 is figuring out how to upgrade them to WCF (.NET 3.5/4.0) without harming the […]
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’ve been mulling a concept very close to Test Driven Development (TDD) but with a surprising twist. As those of you who are familiar with the concept of TDD might be aware, TDD does not strictly advocate (in all cases) a test-first methodology, but rather speaks to the testing […]
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 […]
Recently I answered a question on Stack Overflow where someone was interested in mapping a character to an Enum value. Obviously this isn’t something naturally possible with Enums, so I proposed the following solution. I’ve previously blogged about a generic approach to working with Strings and Enums here. If we […]
Hi Everyone, Well, I said I’d do it, and I will be – I’ve spent several hours putting together a sample DB and solution which demonstrates how to support Entity Framework (v4) POCO objects serialized in and out of WCF Services. In a word, it’s going to be a lengthy […]
You may have heard of the upcoming SQL Server Modelling suite formerly known as ‘Oslo’. The suite, know known as the SQL Server Modelling CTP, features the ‘m’ modelling language and a graphical workbench known as (or codenamed) ‘Quadrant’. I’ve been meaning to look into codename ‘Oslo’ for a while […]
There’s going to be more to this in coming posts, but I thought I’d add all the articles I’ve been reading ahead of schedule. The long and short of the story is this – I’ve managed to implement round trip CRUD operations using POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) using a […]
4ell for a while today, I’ve been trying to find a way to execute a specific dynamic query with the Entity Framework v4 – a query which could be used on a variety of different tables. I have a series of tables which share a common column definition (lets call […]
Happy New Year Everybody! Well, it’s been a surprisingly busy time for me, and this (naturally) translates into great things for you, the reader! You can expect some new entries on Team Foundation Server 2010 (Beta 2) as well as detailed notes on the next revision of the ADO Entity […]
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, […]