Back to Basics – Null-Coalescing Operator Yesterday during an EF4 course that I’m giving at a customer I showed an example for a property that is set using the null-coalescing operator . Since some of the students asked me what is this operator, I gave a small explanation and thought that it’s something that I can share here in the blog. So here it goes… Null-Coalescing Operator The null-coalescing operator or ?? can be very useful when you want to check nullity of a reference type or nullable types...
Start Thinking with ADO.NET 3.5 Slide Deck Yesterday I had an ADO.NET 3.5 session in the The Israeli Web Development Community (WDC) . The session agenda: Entity Framework ADO.NET Data Services Datasets Enhancements As promised, the slide deck and demos can be downloaded from here . I want to thank Noam King for the opportunity to lecture in WDC . it was a pleasure. Also, I want to thank all the participants of the session . I really had a good time presenting the frameworks. Also,...
My Current Learning List of Technologies In the last few days I have started to learn few old/new technologies that I think you should consider learning in the near future as well (if you didn’t learn them before). The technologies: ASP.NET MVC Framework – the new framework that leverage the MVC pattern for ASP.NET. The technology is a must learn technology for every .NET web developer in my opinion. Learning the framework will give you a new choice for implementing web applications with MVC pattern...