Data Points: Demystifying Entity Framework Strategies: Model Creation Workflow
As a data-access technology designed to meet the needs of a variety of development styles, the Microsoft Entity Framework presents developers with a lot of options. Some of these choices need to be...
View ArticleData Points: The Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block, Part 3
Here is the same content in en-us.The Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block, Part 3Code download available at: DataPoints0510.exe (216 KB) Browse the Code Online E nterprise applications can...
View ArticleData Points: The Entity Framework in Layered Architectures
The Entity Framework In Layered ArchitecturesThis column is based on a prerelease version of the ADO.NET EntityFramework. All information herein is subject to change.When architects of an n-tiered...
View ArticleData Points: Composing WPF DataGrid Column Templates for a Better User...
Recently I’ve been doing some work in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for a client. Although I’m a big believer in using third-party tools, I sometimes avoid them in order to find out what...
View ArticleData Points: DataSet and DataTable in ADO.NET 2.0
DataSet and DataTable in ADO.NET 2.0ADO.NET 2.0 sports some exciting enhancements to the core classes found in ADO.NET 1.x and introduces a variety of new classes, all of which promise to improve...
View ArticleData Points: Handling Data Concurrency Using ADO.NET, Part 2
Handling Data Concurrency Using ADO.NET, Part 2Code download available at: DataPoints0410.exe (145 KB) Browse the Code Online Enterprise development has been moving towards a discon-nected model in...
View ArticleData Points: Server-Side Paging with the Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC 3
In my February Data Points column, I showed off the jQuery DataTables plug-in and its ability to seamlessly handle huge amounts of data on the client side. This works well with Web applications where...
View ArticleData Points: Building An Out-of-Browser Client With Silverlight 3
Building An Out-of-Browser Client With Silverlight 3This article is based on prerelease versions of Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend.Silverlight 3 applications are no longer restricted to running in...
View ArticleData Points: Entity Framework Preview: code first, ObjectSet and DbContext
While the Entity Framework (EF) 4 was still in beta, the development team began work on another way to use it. We had the database-first way of creating a model (by reverse engineering a database into...
View ArticleData Points: LINQ Projection Queries and Alternatives in WCF Services
The presenter at my local .NET user group was writing a LINQ query during his session last month when I asked him, “How did we ever live without LINQ?” “I have no idea,” he replied. It’s true. Since it...
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