In one of our recent projects, we decided to swap SQL Express with SQL Compact to ensure easy installation on client machines…Though the move was smooth there was one hitch….SQL Compact does not support Stored Procedures!!! And here we were with lots of medium complexity SPs with Joins and GroupBys ,OrderBy and Min Max functions! […]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Bulb Flash:- Some practical WPF MVVMLight tips!
One of our major projects recently used WPF 4.0 with MVVM pattern.We used the MVVM Light Toolkit for implementing the MVVM Pattern. The MVVM Light Toolkit definitely has a lot to offer to make your life easier but the documentation is not exemplary! Few things we learnt down the road as we came to a […]
EF 4.0 Bulb Flash!:- Load only what you need!!
A small tip for those working with Entity Framework 4.0:- We all know the concept of Lazy Loading in the Entity Framework: With lazy loading enabled, related objects are loaded when they are accessed through a navigation property. With lazy loading a drawback is that an object retrieved from the database comes loaded with all […]
The First Few Steps to Building a Claims Based Application
If you’ve been through my earlier blog “An Introduction to the world of claims” you are now familiar with the most frequently used terms in the “Identity world”. Next lets take a generic walkthrough of the basic steps you will go through when you make a Claims Aware/Claims Based/Relying party application Step 1:- You will […]
Introduction into the world of “Claims”( Windows Identity Foundation & Azure App fabric Access Control!)
Have you been working on a website or an application where you maintain a user database for people coming from different companies/domains ? Someone is responsible for maintaining the consistency of this database? Also you as an application developer are required to write code to check for authorization rights allowing/disallowing visitors to visit only authorized […]