June 2008 - Posts
Mike Taulty has a very nice post on timestamps and concurrency in the Entity Framework. Something that I very much like, however, is how he uses all the information available in a single .edmx file, which includes the storage, mapping and conceptual models,
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Long on prose and short on code, this post just explores some patterns involving mutable/immutable objects in the .NET Framework (mutability from an external point-of-view, at least). The punch line comes at the end, for all of those interested in how
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Very commonly, this has to do with how the service was initialized . The service configuration allows you to specify what access you want clients to have (by default) on entity sets. You may further restrict access through interceptors, but you can never
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In this post I'd like to talk a bit about the InitializeService method that ADO.NET Data Service writers should implement on their services. Usually this would have been a virtual method that developers could override, however it was important to stress
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In my last post , we established that JavaScript Date objects are 'local time-zone aware', and care needs to be taken in how they are constructed and displayed. There are constructors, 'toString'-type methods and getters/setters for both local-timezone-based
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I've talked about the Date type in the past , and since then I've come across a couple of gotchas that developers should probably be aware of. Unlike the regular DateTime type in the .NET Framework, the JavaScript Date type supports the both the UTC and
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