June 2008 - Posts

Model transformation with LINQ to XML
26 June 08 11:28 AM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
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, Read More...
Mutability in the .NET Framework
18 June 08 02:49 PM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
Why is my ADO.NET Data Service empty?
17 June 08 10:26 AM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
So Special - InitializeService in ADO.NET Data Services
16 June 08 10:56 AM | marcelolr | 2 Comments   
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 Read More...
JavaScript Date and ADO.NET Data Services
05 June 08 04:35 PM | marcelolr | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
JavaScript Date, UTC and local times
04 June 08 04:31 PM | marcelolr | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
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