First of all, I don't actually have a better term for tradtional use of XAML compiled as part of an assembly (BAML format) other than to coin the term "firm" XAML in response to the now common term, "loose xaml" (.xamlx files). If you have a better term...

So until we get EF 4.2 and the support for enumerations as first class citizens those of us needing support have resigned ourselves to the simple fact that we are forced to expose a property for the integer value for EF to use and wrap that value with...

So it's become apparent that the documentation (actually concrete examples in my personal opinion) for Windsor Container are a little lacking in the area of showing people how to indicate a specific component instance registration for depenency injection...

HAd this passed to me from the SQL Tips DL here at the 'soft and decided to repost it here to 1. remember about it and 2. share the tidbit INSERT MULTIPLE RECORDS WITH TABLE VALUE CONSTRUCTOR Author: Saleem Hakani (Microsoft Corporation) ...

It's no secret that I am a fan of Windsor Container. Here's a really great series of Advanced Windsor Container Tricks posts that I am linking here for reference Registering Delegates & A Delegate Factory Facility Auto registration How...

So plenty has been written about the mismatch in between the Silverlight browser plug-in and WCF messaging with fault use cases over HTTP. For those of you that didn't know about this then here's your chance to catchup: According to the documentation...

So if you happen to have an EventInfo class and need to determine if the event is static or instance, it isn't actually immeidately clear if this is supported. Most of the MemberInfo basic types expose a property named IsStatic that indicates if this...

Editorial note: EF 4.1 was released as part of the .Net 4 Platform Update 1 release. You should use the information at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2011/04/11/ef-4-1-released.aspx for training now. For those of you interested in POCO In EF4...

Now that’s a great exception message. I think we all can take a clue from the Castle team when it comes to making exceptions meaningful. Instead of next time effectively saying "something went wrong" with our exceptions, really spell out exactly...

How to add providers at runtime programmatically So if you are like me, you are a fan of not reinventing the wheel. This is especially true of components like Membership, Roles, Authentication, Personalization and whatnot. While I take some issue with...

For primers, you need to read this post first: http://buffered.io/2008/07/29/unit-tests-boldly-crossing-boundaries-and-gently-breaking-rules/ So the other day I received an email from a group that I am assisting in understanding TDD, Test Concepts...

A simple list of items no developer should be without. VS 2010 Productivity Tools http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef OData Visualizer http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/f4ac856a...

So here's a lightweight handy WCF service instance provider that takes a slightly different approach than most of what we've seen so far. Usually most people want to use an IInstanceProvider implementation to work with their DI container of choice. Common...

OK I am going to let you in on a dirty little secret about Astoria based services. This secret is probably not even known to you. Ready to hear it? Really? Well here it is: You'd better never have anything go wrong as you'll never know it. It devours...

So everyone reading this (or at least hopefully everyone) will know that putting data access logic into the UI is anti-pattern of all anti-patterns. I am going to sidestep the issue of simple utilities and one-off screens and trivial applications for...

So let me start with by saying that I love the Geneva Framework. Stuart Kwan and team have so far produced a most excellent product. In fact, we were so impressed with it we struck an agreement with the WIF team back in early 2008 to get access to the...

So in most programming languages and environments you have will define an operation that performs some type of interesting work. Let's call that ReallyInterestingMethod() ™ . ReallyInterestingMethod accepts any number of inputs and returns exactly one...

My buddy Spook was lamenting the other day about the unintuitive behavior of the ASP.Net Cookies collection. You can read the fully bits here before continuing. I decided that methinks this is a case for some extension methods! If you are someone that...

Well today I decided to take the plunge and move all of my posts out of my buddy's blog (well some of the newer interesting ones at least). He's been kind enough to put me up squating on his site for years now but I really should just leverage the MSDN...

This is a followup on my followup here . After rapping some with Alex I was thinking about what an expression would look like on the wire, provided it has limited capabilities allowed such as F(G(K(x))) = y F(G( [K(x) {attribute}] )) = y where...

This is a posting part of a converstation going on between myself an Alex James, metadata thinker/engineer/PM par excellence here at Microsoft. You can find the start of the conversation here . I've decided to not be an ass and write a disertation in...

A set of links that I'm posting because 1) I don't want to lose them and 2) they're handy for people to read. Reusable IQueryable base classes Where and reusable Expression tree visitor Local variable references Select Improved...

This is handy article I want to keep around for reference. The original thread can be here In prior versions of IIS, the anonymous user allowed classic ASP content to be isolated by using a different anonymous user for each site. Isolation was accomplished...

The genesis of this occured in a personal conversation regarding a friend's issue they are running into with their services design. During the conversation I made use of my famous comment, "RPC via SOAP". Some of you may of heard me use this before, some...