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Entity Framework (EF) - Events
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:07 PM
In this post we are going to take a look at some of the events that are raised by various parts of the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF). I’m using the recently released Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 / .Net Framework 4.0 for this demo but most of the information also applies to the first version of EF released in .Net Framework 3.5 SP1.
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NTier with Entity Framework (EF) 4 Beta 1 - (VS2010 / .Net 4.0 Beta 1)
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Friday, June 26, 2009 3:14 PM
This post runs through a simple demo of the new N-Tier focused APIs in the in ADO.Net Entity Framework bits (EF4) that are included in Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 / .Net Framework 4.0. For this demo we are going to build a simple WCF service that allows distributed clients to persist changes to a simple object graph with an Order as it's root. This demo also makes use of POCO Support and T4 Template Code Generation.
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Emailing an SSRS Report using ReportViewer
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:15 PM
Through the ReportViewer component users can view, export and print SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports. Developers also get some nice hooks into the ReportViewer control and I’m going to demo how we can use these to extract the report to a pdf and attach it to a new outlook message ready for the user to view and send.
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Programmatic ASP.Net Post Back from C# Code
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:36 PM
This post is somewhat related to my last one that discussed using the Web Dev Server, that ships with VS, to hit ASP.Net web pages from a unit test. In this post I’m going to cover how to fake a user initiated post back from C# code, this example will mimic a button click but should be easy enough to adapt to another control. This example includes the use of View State & Event Validation.
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ASP.Net Website Tests using Web Dev Server
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Friday, October 31, 2008 3:49 AM
One of the great features that came with VS2005 was the Web Dev Server which allows us to run and debug web applications on our development box without the need to install IIS. As with most cool gadgets used by Visual Studio the web dev server is actually also a standalone component that we can make use of outside of the IDE.
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HDNUG Presentation July 2008 - Entity Framework
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:08 PM
Based around an example application we will take a practical look at the upcoming ADO.Net Entity Framework (coming shortly with SP1 for .Net 3.5) and how it will reduce development time for data driven applications.
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Searchable / Dependant Parameters in SSRS
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:51 PM
How to filter the values in an SSRS parameter drop down list using a text search. The idea behind this post came from a question from a colleague, they wanted an SSRS report where they could select from a list of employees but the list could be filtered by searching on the surname (i.e. you enter ‘S’ and it would load a dropdown of all employees whose surname start with S).
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SSRS Custom Code (Expressions, Embedded Code & External Assemblies)
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:48 PM
In this article we will look at the options for using custom .Net code in our Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports. There are three main ways to use code to help generate our reports, in increasing order of complexity (and therefore flexibility) these are; - Expressions - Embedded Code - External Assemblies
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WCF Configuration - Adjusting the default message limits
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:16 PM
When publishing a WCF service there are certain default limits imposed on the messages being sent and received. For example arrays are limited to 16384 elements, strings are limited to 8192 characters and the total message is limited to 64K.
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Programmatically generating web service calls
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Friday, May 30, 2008 1:46 PM
I recently wanted make a call to a third party web service without the use of a proxy class. The code shown in this post will allow you to programmatically build and submit a web service call using the HttpRequest class.
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