The .NET Framework has two collections that will guarantee your items are always sorted whenever you process the collection. Here's how to choose between the two and how to control the sort order (including supporting duplicate entries).
If you think Bert is all talk when it comes to his decade of C# experience, you're wrong. He delivers…15 times.
You don't have to give up on creating dynamic queries just because you're using Entity Framework. Entity SQL and ObjectQuery will let you generate queries at runtime and still let you update your data through Entity Framework.
If there's one life lesson to be learned here, it's that just because a manager knows how to write code, it doesn't mean that they should be allowed to write code.
There once was an invoicing system that, when it worked, it worked very well, indeed. But when it was broken, it was horrid.
Now that you know how to work with multi-swarm optimization, it's time to take it up a level and see how to train your network to use it.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/04/2015
You don't have to give up using dynamic SQL just because you're using Entity Framework. The Entity Framework SqlQuery method will give you back the flexibility of dynamic SQL and still let you work with your data in an object-oriented way.
Make Visual Studio do the hard work to simplify the creation of external lists that can be used to connect outside data to your SharePoint projects.
- By Malin De Silva
- 01/12/2015
Peter shows how a Visual Studio database project can make you more productive when making changes to your database. But a database project also gives you a variety of tools to let you keep track of what those changes are -- which will make moving those changes to your production environment considerably safer.
Peter learns something by listening to readers: Visual Studio database projects provide a great environment for making changes to your databases. Here's a brief introduction about how they'll make life easier for you and all the steps for setting one up.
New identity controls are among the sprint 74 updates being made to the service. Plus, Brian Harry explains the outage from last week.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/04/2014
Among a bevy of new features in this upgrade to the alternative open source NoSQL database engine for .NET is a new storage engine and file system.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/02/2014
The Visual Studio ALM product manager leads the crowd at Live! 360 through some of the market forces driving cloud development.
It’s crunch time for Ben and his team. After a long journey, their project to uplift their biggest client’s application code is nearly at an end. Hopefully they didn’t miss anything ...
Explicitly setting all the bindings needed to compose your application -- that's a lot of work! See how to use convention over configuration to save time and make your composition easier to understand.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 10/28/2014
When you have a process that can return multiple results over time, then .NET Framework Reactive Extensions will let you simplify your code and manage it better.
Incremental improvement to Azure Mobile Services .NET Backend Azure Storage Extension and Windows Azure Mobile Services will ease table navigation pain with Web apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/14/2014
Microsoft adds Azure SQL Database auditing improvements, an Azure Websites support extension, and a cloud-based PowerShell in preview.
Andrew does integration for a living. As a result, weird client data comes with the territory, but one client's data in particular stands out as being truly unique.
The differences between this release and the SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 release from last week are distinct enough to warrant separate releases.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/02/2014