Microsoft’s formerly code name “Project Volterra”, now known as the Windows Dev Kit 2023 has arrived. It’s basically a NUC running a quite powerful ARM processor, some kick ass memory and a half TB built-in SSD. Device specifics 32GB LPDDR4x RAM and 512GB fast NVMe storage Snapdragon® 8cx Gen 3 […]
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It doesn’t seem to be discussed too much, but I think there’s great value in establishing a quiet, comfortable space in your home environment where you can work and focus. As a developer or architect your environment has a large impact on your creativity, your thinking and ability to concentrate. […]
Introduction Recently I began writing a series of articles demonstrating how you could take a blank Database schema and bring it all together with a fully integrated object relational mapping access model (Entity Framework) and then exposing the entire object graph via WCF web services in a completely detached mode. […]
Introduction In my last post, I explained how to add a NuGet package to a solution, and from there how to generate and lightly consume an Entity Framework data model. We’re going to take it to the next level now, and do a bit more with the framework. Expanding on […]
If you’ve ever had any involvement with an Agile project (whether it was “pure” Agile or not), you’ll likely have encountered the beast which is effort forecasting and analysis. This drives the initial estimate of the amount of work which your team thinks it can deliver within a given period. […]
When we moved into our new residence last year, we were not quite prepared for the long, painful learning process which was coming our way. This was the first time we had lived in a property featuring a back-to-base alarm system; and therefore the first time to experience pain with […]
Hi Everyone, Well, it’s nearly the end of the year 2011, and hasn’t it been a doozy? I don’t know about you, but my year has been haywire, to say the least. I started the year living in China, moved back to Australia, set up in Sydney and then finished […]
Continuing on from Part 1, our objective in this article is to create a new Visual Studio solution, and then populate it with some existing projects. To facilitate this, it would be beneficial if you had a few projects already created. For this example, I have defined the following structure: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 – Next Steps with SQL Azure […]
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 […]