InterWorks Blog: .net

Seeing as we're the experts, we thought we'd share some of our intel. But beware, this level of inside information may cause extreme shock and awe. If you get lost, just fire up a flare - we'll come and get you.

Anything Dev
Apr 15
2011
The Problem When using Entity Framework let's say you set up a model with inheritance. Let's make ourselves a simple example (with psuedo-code) to illustrate: abstract class Product{ int Id { get...[more]
.Net, C#, EF, Linq
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Anything Dev
Jul 30
2010
Recently I've been working on a RESTful HTTP server in WCF for a really cool project that isn't public yet, but should be soon.  I say RESTful, but it's not religiously so; more accurately its...[more]
.Net, C#, WCF
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Anything Dev
Mar 08
2010
I don't use Linq much, but when I do I'm amazed how awesome and fun it is. Here is a simple way to remove null values (note values, your keys should never be null, ever and if they are something is...[more]
.Net, C#, Linq
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Anything Dev
Feb 12
2010
At times while developing an ASP.NET project you may run into the following error in your code behind file: The name 'controlName' does not exist in the current context Often this is simply a case...[more]
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Anything Dev
Jan 29
2010
At times, debugging cryptic IIS and ASP.NET error messages can be quite frustrating. I recently ran into the following generic error message when deploying an ASP.NET site to a new test environment:...[more]
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Anything Dev
Jan 13
2010
With the advent of C# 3.0, Microsoft introduced the Language Integrated Query (LINQ) feature to provide .NET developers the ability to query and transform data using any .NET language.  This...[more]
.Net, C#, Linq, sql
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Anything Dev
Oct 30
2009
Update: code examples posted, see below. Sometimes users require functionality that takes a long time, and as software developers it's our job to make sure these tasks get done in a user-friendly...[more]
.Net, AJAX, ASP.NET, C#, WCF
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Jun 26
2009
Chris Kaukis and I ran into an "issue" with NHibernate yesterday that really threw us for a loop.  Consider we have 2 entity types "Order" and "Item" with a Many-to-Many relationship between...[more]
.Net, C#, NHibernate
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