June 2008 - Posts

An account of Bill Gates' farewell
An unusual subject for this blog that has been mostly about components I have worked on. But the event yesterday was memorable and worth sharing. The event has been covered widely so I won't even try to broadly summarize. Insted I will list what I found Read More...
Posted 28 June 08 02:21 by Dinesh.Kulkarni | 1 Comments   
Design of LINQ to SQL - What was I thinking or was I?
A little break from my "LINQ to SQL tips" series of posts. A recent vote of no confidence on a related component orchestrated by community activists reminded me of many questions I have fielded and how the design team approached the design of LINQ to Read More...
Posted 24 June 08 10:11 by Dinesh.Kulkarni | 11 Comments   
LINQ to SQL Tips 8: How to (and why) create a partial class in the designer to augment generated code
The code generated for LINQ to SQL is a set of partial classes - one for your DataContext and one per entity mapped to a table or a view. That means you have the opportunity to augment the generated code with additional code in your partial class. I often Read More...
Posted 06 June 08 05:41 by Dinesh.Kulkarni | 5 Comments   
LINQ to SQL Tips 7: Minimal update when you don't want optimistic concurrency check
The common guidance for updates is to keep the original values in view state so that you can recreate the object in its original state, Attach() it and then set the values that the user has modified. This works well for the most part. But at times, a Read More...
Posted 01 June 08 11:01 by Dinesh.Kulkarni | 2 Comments   

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