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]

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]

Every once in a while, if not daily, every developer forgets some commonly used aspects of the .NET Framework. You know what I mean: “How did that work again?”, “Where was that namespace?” and “I could swear that this was the way to fluff it!”. Ultimately, any qui... [More]

Today the final release of BlogEngine.NET version 1.5 is released.   Kudos++ First many kudos to the project team for keeping it alive and listening to the users. The same goes to the team behind OneSoft.dk for their work on porting great themes, such as the one I am currently using. Excelle... [More]

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) has a bit of a steep learning curve. It’s a different way of thinking, but it is a great addition for providing insight in complex processes. Whilst enterprise architectures mostly focus on BizTalk as a standalone server, WF is meant to be a more core-based ad... [More]

Today I found a great feature, hidden in the PowerCommands add-in for Visual Studio: the self-titled quick close button. Let me elaborate. When I tried to run project A, a modest WCF service project all went well. When I ran project B, also a WCF project, the Visual Studio IDE immediately vanished.... [More]

By tradition it was always quite a challenge to create custom filtering on objects and dynamically query databases. Or to say least a lot of work. LINQ makes this type of querying in code much easier. In this article I wish to elaborate on the "how-to" and advantages of providing a dynamic and type-... [More]

SQL Server has a large fanbase of stored procedures enthusiasts. Including obviously DBA's, but also developers. The latter foremost considering that with storedprocs you can easily shovel responsibility at those who are responsible for maintaining data-integrity. Unfortunately, the ADO.NET Entity ... [More]

A common error while initialising an EntityModel from a WCF Service is the following message: ArgumentException was unhandled by user code The specified named connection is either not found in the configuration, not intended to be used with the EntityClient provider, or not valid. Or more visu... [More]

As of yesterday, the ASP.NET MVC has reached Beta status after five earlier preview releases. The released beta can be downloaded from Microsoft Download. Just to point you in the right direction of the included features so far, you might find Maarten Balliauw's blog helpful as he is strongly climb... [More]