With Christmas Day within throwing distance, I’d like to bid everyone a safe and prosperous new year. I’ll be back next year with more articles, and perhaps some further editorial content as the industry continues to grow further into cloud computing and mobility. Best, R
Yearly archives: 2013
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I found the wording of the Team Foundation Server post-install to be a tad demanding: “The following package installation requires an immediate restart of the machine: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.51.”: R
Hi All, The holiday season is upon us yet again. Typically this is a slow period, while people escape the office for the respite offered over the Christmas/New Year period. It’s been a long year for me, and the holiday season is no different. I’m off on leave for around […]
The following statement was issued by ISOC: Internet Society Expresses Concern over Impact of IntellectualProperty Rights Provisions in Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement(TPP) Draft 18 November 2013 The Internet Society is concerned that the global Internet may be harmed if countries adopt Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) provisions contained in the recently leaked […]
Intro If you have used or are deciding on using an Azure hosted SQL Server database, you might also want the ability to govern the identities and credentials used to access your data. When you create a SQL Database in SQL Azure, initially credentials are created for you, but they […]
Introduction Last week I gave an internal presentation to my fellow consultants at CGI on the principals of data modelling/data architecture, modelling within Visual Studio 2013 and a history of the (ADO.NET) Entity Framework. I’ve attached the slide deck to this article, and also in my presentations page. Data Modelling […]
Introduction Hi all. I’ve been working with the old ASP.NET Dynamic Data website templates, as I wanted a quick and easy to use web UI for managing the data at http://rs-photography.org. As the site is (obviously) image-centric, I wanted to make some modifications to the out-of-the-box Dynamic Data project to […]
Time for a quick timeout — It recently came to my attention that the Aussie Wine Guy app for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 is doing a pretty decent trade. It’s ranked amongst the top apps in the competitive Food & Dining category in the Windows App Store. This is […]
Introduction Recently, I mentioned that the newly minted Visual Studio 2013 asks you to authenticate with a Microsoft account to tie your copy to a specific account. This comes in the wake of Visual Studio no longer being pre-pidded (when a product has a license key included in the installation […]
In case you haven’t heard yet, Visual Studio 2013 (RTM) has been made available to MSDN subscribers this morning. In case you aren’t already familiar with the different flavours of Visual Studio, here’s a link to the product comparison page at Microsoft.com. One important change which I highlighted when I […]
Introduction Over the weekend, I decided to try and import image metadata using C# and the .NET Framework. Aside from “normal” file attributes such as date modified and size, the Windows Explorer (shell) provides extended file property information which can be quite valuable. The challenge was how to extract this […]
Introduction When we left off in Part 1, we had edited the T4 template which generates Entity Framework POCO entities and had it add appropriate attributes to assist in data validation checks. The next step is to show you how we can make use of these annotations. Note: the data […]
Introduction The next logical step in my journey across the Entity Framework v6 RC1 after having established a fairly robust data access approach was to imbue my solution with some more “smarts” when it came to entity validation. Out-of-the-box Entity Framework POCO entities are exactly as advertised – plain old […]
Introduction This one’s going to be a little shorter than the normal entries, even though I’m stepping through the maze that are exceptions which can be raised out of using the Entity Framework. I’m working on some functionality which will ease the pain of POCO object validation, and also cleaning […]