-
In this article I’m going to show how you can use self tracking entities (which are new in the Entity Framework V4) in combination with Silverlight 4. I’m also going to show how to optimize self tracking entities by making an adjustment to the self tracking entities T4 template, which doesn’t...
-
Today some of my fellow MVP’s asked the question if there is an option in Visual Studio to show under which user account the IDE is running. the need this feature since they do a lot of demonstrations on using the IDE and then use the runas option, to show how you e.g. can work with multiple users...
-
I’ve found multiple posts on the web explaining how to sign a XAP file, including this one . In Silverlight 4, a XAP file must be signed in order to let an out of browser application update itself and to show the user a more friendly installation dialog when installing an elevated trust application...
-
On Monday Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010, the newest edition of their integrated development for .NET, Native Windows Development and Silverlight. One of the things that has improved greatly is the Cider designer. This designer is the core component in Visual Studio that developers will use when...
-
Earlier I displayed a neat trick to keep track of modification and creation data with ADO.NET entity framework for .NET Framework 4. I quickly discovered there’s a new feature in .NET 4 to simplify things even more. Visual Studio 2010 enables the use of T4 templates to customize the logic used...
-
Thursday night I presented a Session for the VSUG in Belgium, with the title “Modeling that works with code”. In this session I demonstrated how we can add more value into models and diagrams and how that can help us to keep our model in sync with the actual codebase we work on. (You can download the...
-
After a long period of developing and testing visual studio 2010 a new Beta 2 release is available for subscribers on MSDN. I can assure you it’s an exciting release. I’m especially excited about the new workflow runtime and the great possibilities it provides when working alongside WCF. Download here...
-
I Just got back from my holiday in Tuscany Italy, and am already on the road again. We had a great opportunity to visit the Microsoft Team System development team in Raleigh NC. The team over there is responsible for the Team Foundation Server, Team Web Access, Team Test, Setup & Ops and Team Build...
-
In Visual studio 2010 Team Architect edition, you have a new type of diagram available, called the layer diagram. What is great about this diagram is that you can use it to actually validate if the source code you have written adheres to the rules you defined in terms of allowed dependencies between...
-
It has been a few days since we held developer days conference here in the Netherlands. I Must say I was quite pleased to see there where so many attendees especially with the current economic situation. Devdays is always this special week in the year for me since I tend to always give sessions on the...
-
When you want to Enable code coverage in an Unit test run in Visual Studio 2010 you may find that the steps you need to take have changed. In Visual Studio 2010 you need to take the following steps: Open the Local.testsettings file and there you will see a set of items you can configure on the left hand...