Data-access quicky – A micro mapper

Posted on 27 June 2011 by Willem Meints

Someone (Yes you @lgrave) started taunting me on twitter. He said that he could do data access in only 50 lines using reflection. This gave me an idea. How small can you go with a mapper? Here’s one, done in Continue reading →

WCF Data Services: Optimizing bandwidth usage and performance with updates

Posted on 21 December 2010 by Alex van Beek

If you use WCF Data Services, you’ll probably know something about the OData protocol. For example, the OData protocol supports two kinds of updates: PUT requests: An entity is replaced with the received entity data. This means that all the Continue reading →

ADO.NET Entity framework advanced scenarios: Working with stored procedures that return multiple resultsets

Posted on 16 July 2010 by Willem Meints

Today I got an interesting question about stored procedures that return multiple resultsets in combination with ADO.NET entity framework. During the CTP phase this was broken at some point and the previous version of the entity framework didn’t support it Continue reading →

Improved tracking logic with ADO.NET Entity framework

Posted on 8 December 2009 by Willem Meints

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 Continue reading →

Tracking creation and modification data with ADO.NET entity framework

Posted on 19 November 2009 by Willem Meints

This one I had lying around for quite a while now, but I still think it’s a nice trick when you are working with ADO.NET entity framework inside your application. In a lot of applications there’s some way to track Continue reading →