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In my last blog posts I have been showing you how to create collection of entity objects using code that is custom for each table and object you create. Well, if you use a little reflection code you can shrink this code quite a bit. Yes, we all know that...
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Let’s now look at another advantage of using a DataTable. A lot of developers today are used to using LINQ. After loading data into a DataTable you can iterate using a foreach statement, or you can use LINQ to create a collection of entity objects. The...
As discussed in my last two blog posts you have a variety of ways to create collections of Entity classes. Using a DataSet or DataTable is a little slower than using a DataReader, but in most cases the difference is in milliseconds so in a real world...
As discussed in the last blog post, it is a best practice to build entity classes. In the last post we filled a DataTable with Category data and then iterated over that DataTable to create a collection of Entity classes. In this blog post we will use...
What is an Entity Class An Entity class has properties and typically no methods. An entity class is generally used to hold a single row of data from a table. So, if you have a Category table with the fields CategoryId, CategoryName and Description, you...
One of the navigation mechanisms used in Windows 8 and Windows Phone is a Tile. A tile is a large rectangle that can have words and pictures that a user can click on. You can build your own version of a Tile in your WPF or Silverlight applications using...
Some of our customers are asking us to give them a Windows 8 look and feel for their applications. This includes things like buttons, tiles, application bars, and other features. In this blog post I will describe how to create a button that looks similar...
Instead of a normal button with words, sometimes you want a button that is just graphical. Yes, you can put an Image control in the Content of a normal Button control, but you still have the button outline, and trying to change the style can be rather...
In any application, you want to keep the coupling between any two or more objects as loose as possible. Coupling happens when one class contains a property that is used in another class, or uses another class in one of its methods. If you have this situation...
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