Implementing simple caching in MVC applications
Whenever I develop a new MVC-based website there is always a question of how best to implement caching so that it's unobtrusive and fits neatly with the standard Repository pattern…
Paranormal Activity 4 Reviewed
Haven't added a movie review in ages (who even reads these? Probably just me...) but what's a blog without some posts? Now that me and the missus have BT Infinity…
Improving Entity Framework performance by tracking changes manually
Introduction While working on a recent personal project, I had the not-too-unfamiliar pleasure of fighting Entity Framework to try and get some half-decent performance out of a console application that…
Generating service contract from static WSDL and XSD files
Recently I needed to generate a service contract interface for a third-party client based on their specification. My client would be hosting the service so we would be providing our…
Cowboys & Aliens Reviewed
So my wife and I finally watched Cowboys & Aliens last night. This was one film we debated about seeing at the cinema but eventually ended up not going, and…
Converting from Linq-to-SQL to Entity Framework Model First
Recently I switched hosting providers and had to update an existing project to work against a MySQL database instead of SQL Server. After successfully creating the MySQL database and porting over all the data (which turned out to be a major chore and worthy of a post in itself…), I went to update my website to target the MySQL database only to find out (having forgotten completely) that I’d used Linq-to-SQL (L2S) as the ERM and, of course, L2S only supports SQL Server (thanks Microsoft!). So began what I thought would be a painful process of migrating to Entity Framework…
Which actually turned out to be rather easy! If you’re needing to do the same thing, here’s the process I followed and some pointers/things to remember:
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