My last communique has always been quite important for me in all my previous organizations. And I had thought that I would say something profound in my last email when I leave. But I could not think of anything and so no email. I still can't think of...

I got this error. I got no information on the internet as to how to get around it… 3 hours earlier: I wanted to create a sequence diagram from the code I have already written. Visual Studio 2010 comes with the sequence diagram feature. I decided heck...

This evening I heard someone say that Left Outer Joins are not possible in Entity Framework or perhaps Left Outer Joins are possible, but they bring in all the data and then filter out the right table. I felt an urge to argue, but I resisted. I thought...

When faced with the dilemma that what if I wanted to insert something and before I actually saved the changes into a persistent storage (database) by calling SaveAllChanges() method on the data context, I wanted to do a select, and also I wanted to make...

This is not a problem that I feel you would encounter on a regular basis. I think I had a unique problem because of which I encountered this one. When you install an operating system it allows you to create a profile. Now I installed the machine at home...

Internal Logical File (ILF): An internal logical file (ILF) is a user identifiable group of logically related data or control information maintained within the boundary of the application. The primary intent of an ILF is to hold data maintained through...

Look around the web. You will find no Update method in the repository patterns for entity framework implementations published. There are different flavors of retrieves, mark for insertions an deletions but no update implementation. And curiously this...

We decided to implement the repository pattern for the Entity Framework Implementation in our project. So last couple of weeks people have been asking me why the repository pattern is required. I mean what is it that this pattern does besides giving a...

Why do Entity Framework Function Imports do not have eager loading? Because when you use Entity SQL or regular Object context to retrieve data, it is a live connection. So whenever you say eager loading enabled, it gets the data from the database using...

Entity Framework, Eager Loading and Lazy Loading, my own 2 cents. For those new to Entity Framework, we are talking about the patterns that you can use to load related objects. The strategy by which you would load entity objects that are related to the...

So you are serious about your code quality huh... well StyleCop is a fantastic tool to ensure that. The best part is, it integrates with Studio 2008. It is simple. Go to This Location , click on downloads and download the latest version of StyleCop. As...

Lately everyone in my team and around my bay have been talking about Entity Framework. Well since I have been an early adopter, writing my small apps using Entity Framework and fighting for it on my project, people have been coming to me to ask questions...

So what's this new buzz word... everyone has been talking about it... Essentially what we are doing is taking our applications and putting them in a cloud. Cloud meaning highly available servers which are provided by huge service providers such as Microsoft...

I had recently posted about a bug on SQL CE Entity Framework . Please note that the links mentioned in there for the bug and the hot fix are internal to Microsoft. The hot fix shall be released as a KB article in a couple of weeks.

I am working on this really smart, smart client application installer. Which smartly installs other pieces of another smart client application as and when required. It makes sure that only those bits are downloaded that are not already installed. So...

My wife is a writer, and a pretty good one for that matter. Recently she went for a job interview, where she was asked a lot of questions about current affairs, and she doesn't exactly read the news regularly. So I told her she should. But she doesn't...

I am assuming that you want to write a prototype of some sort for which you want a sample database to work with. And I am assuming that you don't have AdventureWorks on your machine. Putting down quick set of steps: Go to http://www.codeplex.com/MSFTDBProdSamples...

I am getting married. That's right. Well I don't know about the other parts of the world, but 32 is a little late to get married for people resident in India. All my friends are married and have children of age ranging from 4 months to 8 years. Most of...

Look for this topic on the Internet. The first thing that you will see is the implementation of the service. I really wouldn't fathom why that is usually done. If I am looking for the subject Hosting a service on IIS, I would assume that the service has...

Well It has been a really long time since I blogged about anything. Lots of things happened in the last couple of days...? or should I say Months...? So let me start by telling you about a sweet little discussion that I had with my girlfriend the other...

I am a huge fan of Jeff Atwood and Coding Horror . I usually like his stuff. But I somehow didn't agree too much to his post where he talks about Code Folding (#region) . I mean of course I also agree with a few things that he says, so let me put them...

Most interesting short cut keys on Visual Studio 2008: Ctrl + R + R: Rename whatever is selected (Refactoring). Ctrl + K + M: This is to create a new method stub. just call the method as it already exists and then hit the shortcut. Ctrl + ".": Opens the...

I was booting up my machine. I had just logged in and all the apps were firing up one by one. So I must have fired up something and might be typing into it, when Google Talk fired up in between. So everything that I had just written went into the google...

Sarang just posted on his blog about this post . And it really impressed me. So I thought it has to be mentioned about on my blog too. I specially like the part where he says that Google's idea of business is to amuse and attract people. And that most...

You go to Team Explorer bar and double click on "Source Control". This fires up the Source Control Explorer. Now you double click a few thousand times to reach the directory that you wanted to reach and you do something that you couldn't have perhaps...