It's pretty obvious that MSMQ is a bit of a dark art out there. People know it exists, everyone knows someone somewhere that knows a guy who once did something with it, and like practitioners of esoteric arts, the technology is looked upon with distrust...

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...

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) ...

OK all of you readers out there should know and love Powershell by now and you are using it constantly, right? If not get on with it! One of the most exciting things that came out of version 2 was the ability to perform remoting. Basically the ability...

OK let’s make this clear. You can totally call SQL Functions, SQL SPROCS, or any other raw SQL statement and use it in EF Code Only. What you don’t get is automatic or fluent API configuration statements that perform this mapping work for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

where the set of D is dimensions and the set of M is measures. Let F(x) calculate the number of members and G(x) the size of the member. Debate. edit: I should have noted this is the approximation of the size. Depending on storage system there...

Been meaning to post this for a long while now. Pretty much sums me up :) thanks to Scott Adams and his wonderful wit!

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...

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...

Here's my team at Microsoft's EULA Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Services and Business Processes Team Mongoose END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT IMPORTANT - READ THIS CAREFULLY: This End User License Agreement is a legal agreement between you (either an...

If you are in a situation where you need to pass a windows domain user into SQL then you might want to think about this. The most reliable way is to use the user’s SID (security identifier) because SIDs never change (aliases can possibly change); however...

OK it came as a shock to me that so many people were building huge sets of query data that they are binding in their UI and then deciding to page it at like 10 rows per page. I'm not talking about 1 or 2 or even 3 pages of data, I'm talking about hundreds...

This entry was edited July 16th, 2008 to include an additional extension method courtesy of Alex James //Copyright (c) 2008 James Zimmerman //Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy //of this software and associated...

This bit came about from a post from Brad Wilson back in July that some of my Magenic buddies sent me. I won't repeat what his issues are (you can read it for yourself) but here's the solutions to his misunderstandings regarding nullable types. Maybe...

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...

OK. We're going to assume everyone here knows about ASP.Net Session state. We also will assume that you know there's 3 modes, InProc (default), State Server, and SQL. The latter two will be the topic of discussion here. The biggest difference between...

FYI, there’s built-in support for Active Directory sites (since 2.0), including support for adjacent sites (not relying on name, etc). :) using System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory; foreach (var site in ActiveDirectorySite.GetComputerSite...