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Datasets vs Business Entities

If you are an experienced .Net developer more than likely you've come to a cross roads of sorts in development over which object model to go with. Do you use Strong-Typed Datasets or should you write your own business entities from scratch or generate business entities using an ORM. A reader emailed me asking my opinion the other day and the very question was also raised on Twitter by Joel Ross yesterday as well. Here are my words of wisdom on the subject matter to help you hopefully arrive at a conclusion which road you may want to travel. Things to...

posted @ Friday, October 26, 2007 9:33 AM | Feedback (5)

Sync Services for SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 in Visual Studio 2008

One of the new features in Visual Studio 2008 provides the ability to easily sync data from the server to the client and the client to the server using Sync Services for ADO.Net. For developers supporting Winform and Smart Clients this is a much welcomed feature. Developers will be able to take advantage of Sync Services in a variety of ways including a local store for off line data as well as caching data locally for speed. When you deal with syncing of data as a developer the first thing that pops into mind is conflict resolution. For those getting started with Sync Services we'll look at how to...

posted @ Sunday, September 23, 2007 5:52 PM | Feedback (28)

TechEd Day 2

It is day two of TechEd and my feet and legs are killing me. My feet didn't get a chance to rest after the four day whirlwind tour of Disney World. I told my wife that I was going to have to go to TechEd just so I could rest :) Here is day two's activities. Biztalk WCF Adapter The first session I attended this morning was an overview of the WCF Adapter for Biztalk which is in the R2 release. Don't get your hopes up just yet because it isn't available. I was told it wouldn't be out until 3rd quarter. ...

posted @ Thursday, June 07, 2007 4:02 PM | Feedback (0)