Azure Inter-role communication using callback instead of queues 20 December 2010 Peter-Himschoot Azure, WCF, VS2010, .NET Development I’m currently playing with Azure and the Azure training kit, and I learned something cool today. When you work with Azure you can setup multiple worker roles for your Azure application. If you want to make these roles talk to one another you can use the queuing mechanism which is part of Azure. But ... [More]
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta is available 11 December 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010 For those really on the edge people, the beta of SP1 for VS2010 is available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=11ea69cb-cf12-4842-a3d7-b32a1e5642e2&displaylang=en
Looking at generated queries for LINQ 2 SQL and EF with Visual Studio 2010 Intelli-Trace 14 November 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, .NET Development When you use LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework you might wonder from time to time what the actual SQL is that was generated by the runtime. Both frameworks have their specific way to allow you to look at this, but require some extra code. Of course you shouldn’t forget to remove this code. Visual Stu... [More]
Invoking commands from events using the InvokeCommandAction behavior 20 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot WPF/Silverlight MVVM is something for me. Databinding your data and behavior so you don’t have any code in your views is for me a nice separation of concepts. However some control’s cannot execute a command for certain events, for example when you select something in a listbox. Enters InvokeCommandAction, which is... [More]
Entity Framework 4 with Self Tracking Entities - Splitting up the generated entities onto a shared Entities assembly with (almost) no fuss 17 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot I love the new Entity Framework 4 T4 templates for generating POCO’s and Self Tracking Entities. However the generated code ends up in a single assembly, mixing database independent POCO’s and STE’s with Entity Framework specific code. I like my entities to be in another project. How can we do this?... [More]
U2U is still looking for colleagues 16 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot Stuff Today someone asked my if U2U is still looking for new colleagues, since some time passed since the announcements in popular job-sites. The answer is YES! If you’d like to join the U2U team, contact us! And maybe you’ll be joining us at TechEd Berlin. The perfect opportunity to get to know each oth... [More]
Building a generic EntityViewModel 15 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot In this blog post I want to show you a little ViewModel wrapper for entities I’ve built. You can use it to wrap entities who don’t need to support property change notifications, implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. When your model’s entities support INotifyPropertyChanged and IDataErro... [More]
Nog een beetje tijd over deze (natte) zomer? 09 August 2010 Peter-Himschoot Duik erin met MSDN. Microsoft Belgie heeft een aantal zelf-trainingen staan om je up-to-speed te krijgen met: Silverlight 4 Visual Studio 2010 Windows Phone 7 Windows Azure De laatste komt binnenkort online.
Add Search support for Add Reference 11 July 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010 Visual Studio 2010 now comes packed with too many assemblies. The list of assemblies to pick from in the Add Reference dialog is now a little too large for my taste. Today, while browsing around in the Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager, I found the Search References extension: After installin... [More]
How to implement INotifyPropertyChanged without strings 14 June 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development INotifyPropertyChanged is an interface which is very important to do proper databinding and is heavily used in the MVVM pattern. However, to implement it you have to raise the PropertyChanged event whenever a data-bound property changes value, and you have to pass the name of the property to it. Th... [More]