I finished up my talks at ASP.NET Connections yesterday and wanted to get the code posted as well as links for the additional topics covered in the Silverlight animation session.  Here they are: Building N-Tier ASP.NET Applications with LINQ Code Silverlight 2 Animations Code SilverlightFX Farseer...

LINQ to SQL is fascinating - the more I work with it, the more I hate it, and then love it again all at the same time. Recently we had an issue while using it in a slightly older version of our N-Tier WCF application which uses LINQ to SQL as it's primary ORM solution (yes, I know). I'll try to briefly...

If you are using Linq to SQL, instead of writing regular Linq Queries, you should be using Compiled Queries . if you are building an ASP.NET web application that’s going to get thousands of hits per hour, the execution overhead of Linq queries is going to consume too much CPU and make your site slow...

Update 20081022: I have updated the articles code to reflect the bug fixes kindly suggested by Paco :). I have now used this in my project and have had no issues with it yet. The fixes included clearing order by's on the count query and also returning the count as an Int64. Cheers Stefan -----------...

We decided to use FilteredViews instead of FetchXml for an internal project, but we ran into couple of problems. You can't access data from the FilteredViews using ASP.NET since it runs under NETWORK SERVICE (by default (app pool)), FilteredViews filter the data by Users. If you set the <identity>...

This is my first project on LINQ, and I got surprised on how tuff it is to build join queries. But the trick is to understand how the LINQ to Entities work. I will discuss in this blog some of the complicated queries that I built and how I built them. But let's first understand how the LINQ to Entities...

We've had the first of our two half days with Steven Sanderson this morning. It was split in half, with the first half covering the new C# 3.0 language features and the second tackling MVC. LINQ We went through some fairly basic examples of LINQ to Objects just to bring everyone up to speed, covering...

In my last post, I have mentioned of creating Flickr app with Asp.net MVC. In recent update I have modified it with Asp.net MVC Preview 3. You can find a general reference about the project here . But in this post, I will say, what are the changes due to the new release and where to start especially...

I'm working with a database table that has a RowVersion field defined as a TimeStamp data type.  The TimeStamp field is there to add concurrency into the application to ensure a row hasn't changed while a user is trying to update or delete it.  When the TimeStamp field value is queried and...

Microsoft just released the SP1 beta for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 and it includes a huge number of new features and enhancements.  Check out Scott Guthrie's blog for details but here's a quick list of what's included: ASP.NET Data Scaffolding Support (ASP.NET Dynamic Data) ASP...