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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,...
Getting Started with Microsoft Sync Framework The post will introduce the Microsoft Sync Framework which, in my opinion, is going to be one of the must know technologies of the near future. What is Microsoft Sync Framework? Microsoft Sync Framework is a synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline access across multiple data stores. The framework enables taking data offline by working against a cached set of data. Then we can submit the changes to a global database in a batch by...
Back to Basics – How to Retrieve a Value Returned by a SP In the following posts I’m going to describe basic tools which every developer needs to know. In today’s post I’m going to explain how to retrieve a value returned by a stored procedure . The Story Behind the Post During this week one of my colleagues asked me if it’s possible get a returned value of a stored procedure with the infrastructure I wrote to my current project. The question regarded a returning value and not output parameters which...
Building a .Net Client for ADO.NET Data Service In the previous post about ADO.NET data services I introduced the data services topic and showed a simple example of how to build a data service . In today’s post I’m going to explain how to consume the built data service by a .NET client . Revisiting The Previous Post Example In the previous post I gave an example of course class and course data context. In the previous example I used the preview version of ADO.NET data service and since then the VS2008...