December, 2008

I’ve seen this question quite often on the Astoria forums and wanted to write something down so that our users can gain from the discussions that go on in our forums. We will discuss how one deals with entities ( tables / records / resources ) that participate in an inheritance hierarchy. We shall take the following Data Model to discuss some key scenarios involving the Client Library. //Base Class...

I probably brought this onto myself by taking all my vacation time in November to go back home for a month long visit. Now that its December , almost 80% of the team is on vacation and I am in office. Its not just my team , most of my floor in building 35 is on vacation. I hardly see anyone in the hallways nowadays , the silence feels unusual. Most of the people with whom I used to discuss any new...

This post is inspired by this forum thread : Data services client -- exception on saveChanges Problem Statement I have added some custom proeprties to the Entity Types Generated by DataSvcUtil.exe /Add Service Reference / Hand Coded , these properties do not exist on the server and should not be sent to the server . When I try to save an object of a Type which has custom client-Side only properties...