Recently we were working on a proof of concept on a Entity Attribute Value (EAV) model in C#. Using just POCO and no help from other tools like Entity Framework. The angle was to create a generic Product class for which every distinct derived instance could have unique properties. And where the base... [More]

    Release Current version 1.0 Latest release October, 2009 Develop status Stable Deployment Website Auto-update N/A, online only Get started ... [More]

With the official introduction of SQL Azure (August CTP) on August 18th 2009 it wasn’t really intuitive to connect to your SQL Azure Database. Sure, there is an official workaround but that honestly just doesn’t cut it at the moment.   So to quickly start working without any fuzz,... [More]

  Release Current version 0.1.7 Latest release 25 August, 2009 Develop status Very unstable (Alpha) Deployment .application (3.5Mb) | ClickOnce installer Auto-update N/A, onli... [More]

Today the SQL Server Team announced the availability of three major CTP’s and several new upcoming projects in the SQL related family tree.   The major (August 2009) CTP’s are: SQL Server 2008 R2 SQL Server StreamInsight SQL Azure Although all three releases are another... [More]

It’s been a week or two now since MEF Preview 6 was released and we can see the team actually has listened carefully to the community with this update.   The Release Notes provide a decent place to start when upgrading Preview 5 to Preview 6 samples, so you really should read them. Most thin... [More]

Starting tomorrow, I have a short two week holiday planned. That means no I/O when it comes to development, troubleshooting, management jibberish, e-mail, phone… or simply whatever.   But just to tick off some of the colleagues who will be working in a seething, roaring 30+ degree centigrade... [More]

A bit of history here. Belgians are the southern neighbours of the Dutch. And ever since the Belgian Revolution approx. 1830 AD led them to a sovereign state, we – as in “we” being the Dutch – take every opportunity we get on making fun of them. But on a cultural level, the B... [More]

    Bernard: [Unties the tentacles] There, you're free to go. Green Tentacle: Thanks, Bernard! Purple Tentacle: Yes. Thank you, naive human. Now, I can finish taking over the world! [Purple Tentacle leaves] Thomb, thomb, thomb! Green Tentacle: Wait! Bernard: Oh yeah. Now ... [More]

One of the propagated “great features” for ASP.NET MVC is the full control you have over the routing and url’s of your webapplication. In order to demonstrate this, let’s walk through a sample that specifically handles subdomain routing. The Routing Scenario Actually, the f... [More]