In this episode of 10-4, we discuss a new feature coming in the next release of ADO.NET Data Services: server-driven paging. This allows you to constrain the size of result sets that can be requested by clients, eliminating potentially problematic scenarios. In addition, clients can also now request the total …
Manuel Fähndrich and Peli de Halleux sit down for a quick coding session that shows how to use Code Contracts and Pex together. Code Contracts can be used to specify what your code should do, they get turned into runtime checks which Pex can analyze and try to find counter-examples …
Silverlight 2 provides a set of common controls, but what if they don’t meet your need visually or functionally? This session aims to discuss two features of controls within Silverlight 2: templating and creating custom controls. We’ll look at what tools and techniques are available to customize the existing core …
Learn how to extend the ASP.NET MVC framework with dependency injection, view engines, action filters, and more. We’ll see how to apply Test Driven Development and write unit tests with mock objects.
SubSonic is A Super High-fidelity Batman Utility Belt that works up your Data Access (using Linq in 3.0), throws in some much-needed utility functions, and generally speeds along your dev cycle. There are a few ways to work with SubSonic 3.0. One of them is to tell it to get …
What would you say if I told you that you can stop writing data access code in .Net? Aren’t you tired of writing the same thing over and over again, opening connection, querying the database, figuring out what to return, getting back untype data that you need to start putting …