Entity Framework is here to stay as Microsoft is steering future development towards its use. But if you use Entity Framework in your Silverlight apps, you may bump up against some hurdles trying to persist changes made to the Entities on the client back to the store. One design is to use WCF services as [...]
You probably “get it” as to why OR/M in general is becoming more widespread and are signing onto why coding to Objects and letting the OR/M engine interact with the underlying store (thus abstracting the database) is a good thing. But if you are just getting started with Entity Framework you might be lulled into [...]
With yesterday’s announcement of Silverlight 3 Beta developers need to decide if they want to make a deal with the Devil. Should I install all the bits to use Silverlight 3? “Of course, why not” you might ask? Well, if you are like me and have downsized to only one, well backed up, laptop (and [...]
I thought I’d write a SIlverlight (or WPF) app to organize a text doc I have that is full of cut/paste blurbs from financial websites. I review this doc each weekend to arrive at potential trades for the coming week. I use a methodology that would suggest a basic database schema so I went ahead [...]
If you’ve ever hiked in the mountains you may understand the concept of the “false peak” where after busting your rump up a 30 degree slope for a couple of hours at 9000 feet elevation you finally reach what you thought was the top and there is another (higher) peak a few more hours and [...]
If you want a custom look for a ContentControl you can apply a Style which customizes various Dependency Properties of the Control to give it an altered appearance. The next step up the customizing food chain is to edit the out-of-the-box look of a Control using a custom ControlTemplate. After that you can extend UserControl [...]
For many, many months this blog has remained dormant. This was mainly due to being employed and kept very busy on projects but also a bit related to my reluctance to blog while employed (as opposed to consulting) due to that ever (albeit remote) possibility that something I say or do will in some way [...]