I hit my head against a wall for a while today when I was trying to create a data service using my EF POCOs. I have my model & context in one assembly and my generated POCO entities in another. When I ran the service (I had exposed all EntitySets for AllRead), I got the mysterious error: The server...
Read More...WCF Data Services and EF POCOs that are in their own Assembly
Sunday, February 07 2010 - Data Access
Vermont IT Jobs: Java Developers at the fast growing Dealer.com
Friday, January 29 2010 - Jobs
Dealer.com is one of Vermont’s great IT success stories and a very cool place to work. They are looking to fill a few Java developer positions and are also looking for tech leads. There are some great opportunities for the right people. Here are the specific positions: Java Developer: http://jobs-dealer...
Read More...Vermont IT Jobs: (Colorado or telecommute) Sr .NET Developer
Thursday, January 28 2010 - Jobs
Sr. Software Developer position Meeting Sciences, Inc. is looking for a Sr. Software Developer interested in working on exciting new, and highly unique, solutions in the areas of communication, collaboration and business intelligence. Deployed as a SaaS (utilizing cloud computing), our solutions...
Read More...Passing around an ObjectContext: by value or reference?
Wednesday, January 27 2010 - Data Access
<Refresher> When you pass parameters in VB, you use the ByVal and ByRef keyworks. The default in VB is ByRef with a nuance (see ByRef Parameters Passed by Value ) In C#, no keyword means by value and alternatively, you use the ref keyword to pass a reference. The key difference is that when you...
Read More...O’Reilly Webcast tomorrow, Jan 27, Top 10 Treats in EF4
Tuesday, January 26 2010 - Data Access
Tomorrow at 10am PST/1pm EST, I’ll be presenting a live web cast for O’Reilly Media called the Top 10 Treats in Entity Framework 4. The web cast is one hour (including intro and questions). Short & sweet. You can register at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1517 . The webcast will be recorded...
Read More...Vermont IT Jobs: 4 programming jobs listed in this week’s Seven Days
Friday, January 22 2010 - Jobs
Norwich University: Web App Developer with FLash/Flex experience ARD: Software Developer UVM: Web Programmer in Continuing Ed – HTML, PHP, MySQL and more PKC: Sr. .NET Desktop Software Engineer – C# & WPF required; WCF, XML, SQL, version control and CSLA helpful Plus two support jobs: Pcc.com...
Read More...Vermont IT Jobs: Web & Database Programmer Analyst in White River Junction
Thursday, January 21 2010 - Jobs
RESOURCE SYSTEMS GROUP is a multi-disciplinary, employee-owned consulting firm providing insightful consulting services for the planning, analysis, and management of transportation, natural resources, technology, and business. We design sophisticated approaches to collecting, modeling, and communicating...
Read More...Some Visual Studio tips I picked up recently
Tuesday, January 19 2010 - Tools
Earlier this month, Rob Hale presented at the Vermont.NET User Group on what he learned at PDC. There was a lot of great information; but oddly, two tiny little Visual Studio features stood out for me. One is not even new to VS2010. Recent Project Tricks on Start Page There are a zillion new productivity...
Read More...Leveraging VS2010’s Entity Data Model Designer for .NET 3.5 Projects
Tuesday, January 19 2010 - Data Access
One of the benefits of Visual Studio’s multi-targeting is that if you are still stuck using the .NET 3.5 version of Entity Framework and are unable to move to EF4 (so sad), you can still get the new designer goodies for a .NET 3.5 project. Remember that the designer is a VS2010 feature, not a ...
Read More...Vermont IT Jobs: 10 .NET & DBA positions at Vermont Software Company
Wednesday, January 13 2010 - Jobs
I got a note today from a recruiter trying to help a local software company hire a bunch of .NET developers and DBAs! SHe didn’t say where in Vermont. I can only Burlington or Middlebury area, but you never know… I am working with a dynamic software company in Vermont that is looking to hire 10 people...
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