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December 2008 - Posts

Monday, December 22, 2008 3:44 PM

Two worlds of Dynamic Data customization: generic vs schema specific

There are many ways to customize a ASP.NET Dynamic Data site, which can sometimes be a bit overwhelming to newcomers. Before deciding what customization makes sense for you, it is important to understand the two major buckets that they fall into: Generic
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:33 PM

Time for a new useless blog subtitle

For the longest time, I had set my blog subtitle to “Dynamic Data and other ASP.NET topics”, which some might argue would not have won any originality contests.  On the bright side, it was a fine match for my equally original blog title: “David Ebbo's
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:47 PM

Using Dynamic Data with multiple databases

Most Dynamic Data web sites typically only use a single database, with either a Linq To Sql or Entity Framework model over it. But in some cases, you need your site to use multiple databases/models. This came up today in this forum thread . In fact, the
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Attachment(s): DynamicDataEFAndL2S.zip
Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:53 PM

Handling database exceptions in Dynamic Data

This post was prompted from a forum thread in which the user wanted to display database errors in a Dynamic Data page, instead of the default behavior that ends up with an unhandled exception (or an AJAX error with partial rendering). When using Linq
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Attachment(s): DynamicDataEntityDbErrorHandling.zip
 
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