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January 2008 - Posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:16 PM

LINQ to SQL vs. LINQ to Entities Smackdown!

OK, maybe not a smackdown... but it sure sounded like a good title. There's a great paper on MSDN that describes the similarities and differences in LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities from the Entity Framework. I have done a bunch of LINQ demos recently,
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:27 AM

WCF and Custom Bindings

In this post, I am going to create a custom binding on the service side that does the same exact thing as the basicHttpBinding does, and then we'll call that service from a client configured to use the basicHttpBinding on the client to prove it works.
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Friday, January 18, 2008 8:59 AM

Finally... Justice for my Friend, Rocky

Since I don't live in Atlanta anymore, I hadn't gotten the news that Rodney Battles was finally convicted for murdering my friend Rocky Tucker . I hope that Ruby Tucker can find some peace now that the trial is over.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 1:16 PM

Another Great Day to be a Dad

I just got this email from my wife about my 5-year old daughter. Avery just called home... she's STUDENT OF THE MONTH! :)- It is a great day to be a dad.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:00 PM

What's In a WCF Binding, And What Can My Service Do Right Now?

I saw an interesting question in an internal mailing list, asking how to show the binding name for an endpoint. The real purpose for the question was to demo how, using WAS, you can host a service with multiple endpoints and still get the IIS activation
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:13 PM

Modify Message Content With WCF

Plenty of resources talk about extensibility in WCF, and mention IClientMessageInspector and IDispatchMessageInspector as ways to look at the content of a message, usually dumping to some sort of log. In this post, I'll highlight their obvious strength:
Posted by kaevans | 5 Comments
Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:38 AM

SEC is the Toughest Conference in 2007

LSU is undisputed as the #1 team (despite fuzzy BCS math allowing LSU to leapfrog Georgia when Ohio State didn't have to play anyone...). Great news is that Georgia finished the season at #2, even receiving 3 first place nods. This makes the SEC the first
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:52 PM

Georgia Routs Undefeated Hawaii

For the past week, each sports writer covering the Georgia and Hawaii matchup could not resist two little words in their interviews and articles. Boise State. In January 2007, underdog Boise State upset hugely favored Oklahoma. Many writers, looking for
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