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My first blog post of 2010 and Jan is almost over. Things have been a bit hectic here since we had a few changes on our team. In fact 3 of the 6 guys on the team are new – they either started recently, or are about to start on Feb 1. This has meant that some of the communications have been a bit delayed – since Eben would have owned Devdays. Enough of that though, what is happening with Devdays? What is Devdays? Devdays is about a couple of things 1) Catching up with technology. It is the place where...

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I just published an episode a few days ago for The MOSS Show podcast with Roy Osherove, noted unit testing expert, amongst other things. In general, I’ve found experience with unit testing, amongst other ALM maturity practices, to be lower with SharePoint developers than with, for example, ‘standard’ asp.net developers (whatever that means). I can only surmise as to why this is so – perhaps it’s because they hang out in different circles, perhaps it’s because SharePoint itself is so vast they don...

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I was busy playing with Azure a few months ago, putting together some videos for MSDN and I saw today that some of them are now live. The Azure offering looks really exciting, so it was great to play with the bits, even though they’re all still CTP / beta right now. If you haven’t heard too much about it, the check out Azure.com , and check out these videos. How Do I: Get Started With the Azure Service Bus? How Do I: Get Started With the Access Control Services? How Do I: Create And Use an Azure...

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A chat with a work colleague opened my eyes to the reality that many programmers still use DataSets, and consider them powerful and useful tools. Many of my peers would react to the idea much like a vampire confronted by sunlight (a proper vampire, not these metrosexual emasculated snivellers popularised in the Twilight series), pulling back in horror and making a hissing noise before launching a full blooded attack at the throat. So why do many developers hate them so much, and why are they still...

In Part 1 , I showed you the end-goal - the simple and easy way of using EF in a disconnected (n-tier) architecture. But how is it done? In this post we'll start diving into the ModelAccess<T> class, looking at the simple Get() and the DeleteEntity() methods. ModelAccess<T> Definition Let's have a look at the definition of ModelAccess<T>. public class ModelAccess where ContextType : ObjectContext, new() { ... } ModelAccess<T> is a generic class - the generic type T...

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2 WEEKS (Almost) since i became an MVP for Team System. On my return from leave on the 4th of January, one of my email subjects read “Congratulations 2010 Microsoft MVP!”. YES i was awarded with the 2010 Microsoft MVP Award for Team System. My fellow colleague Robert MacLean was also awarded the Team System MVP award, check out his blog here . Robert and I have been involved in Team System Rangers projects since April last year, working closely with some of the other great MVP’s and community leads...

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I just published the latest episode of The MOSS Show. I decided to do some episodes now and then with some interesting ISVs in the SharePoint space, so this is the first episode in the series. It’s a discussion with BA Insight, who make some interesting add-ons for searching in MOSS, Search Server and FAST. Check it out at http://www.themossshow.com/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

I love Entity Framework (EF) – it’s straightforward and lets me concentrate on code and business logic instead of SQL and stored procedures. However, there are some issues that need to be worked through if you’re going to use EF. Firstly, there are tons of examples of how to use EF if you’re building small apps that don’t require a service layer – connecting a grid directly to the model is almost trivial. What about n-tier patterns and practices? (Aside: I know there are tool such as RIA services...