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Improving the world one entity at a time

July 2008 - Posts

ADO.NET Data Services How Do I? Videos
In case you've missed these, we already have some 'How Do I?' videos up on MSDN that cover ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/cc300162.aspx Enjoy! Read More...
SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP now available
Yay for interoperability! If you've got systems running PHP, you can now connect them to SQL Server 2005 with the PHP driver available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=61BF87E0-D031-466B-B09A-6597C21A2E2A&displaylang=en Read More...
Beware of stack overflows in asynchronous calls
This one bit me not too long ago, and I thought I'd share it to help ease other's pain if the run into it as well... I was playing around with some product code, and one of the unit tests started failing with a stack overflow error. When I ran it by itself, Read More...
Building LINQ Expressions for ADO.NET Data Services
While the 'LINQ Ninja' moniker is something that Phani completely made up on the spot and I actively reject any such claims, I can still happily recommend reading this blog post which I gave him a hand with. The thing to remember is that even though writing Read More...
ADO.NET Data Services support for $value
Today's entry is about a feature that allows ADO.NET Data Services to play very nicely with other software that runs on the Internet, like browsers or any program that can take URLs in fact. Being REST-based, communication with an ADO.NET Data Service Read More...
Entity Framework - MSDN on the Big Picture
MSDN Magazine has published Achieve Flexible Data Modeling With The Entity Framework , which talks about the ADO.NET Entity Framework starting from the initial motivation, then the different layers that make up the stack (including a nice if smallish Read More...
Phani's Blog
In case you haven't run into it yet, Phani is an ADO.NET Data Services team member who regularly blogs interesting stuff. http://blogs.msdn.com/phaniraj/default.aspx Worth keeping an eye on it... Read More...
ADO.NET Data Services Beta bits don't support complex types for service operations
If you're running into this limitation, you'll see the following error message every time you access the service. The server encountered an error processing the request. The exception message is 'Method 'signature' has a return type 'return type' which Read More...
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