Re: Validation

2014-10-08 Thread Neil Young
Greg, If you are starting new validation work I'd be taking a good look at this: https://fluentvalidation.codeplex.com/ We've used it in a largish MVC project quite happily (I also wish we'd used it in another project as it would have made conditional validation for different clients a breeze vi

Re: Recommendation for graphical editor type library/custom controls

2013-12-16 Thread Neil Young
We've done some initial POC work into modelling a factory process system using this telerik control: http://www.telerik.com/products/wpf/diagrams.aspx We've decomposed the graph and stored it separately into tables, you can get custom images and control connections etc. The project has been in p

Re: Basic MVC4 question on Form Post

2013-11-04 Thread Neil Young
I'd also suggest to go straight to T4MVC for some strongly typed goodness :) http://t4mvc.codeplex.com/ Neil. On 4 November 2013 15:58, GregAtGregLowDotCom wrote: > Thanks guys. I was suspecting that’s roughly what’s needed. I had just > found that I could name a form, similarly to what you h

Re: [OT] Surface Pro for a bit of coding?

2013-08-02 Thread Neil Young
Tom, No bad experiences here. I've been using it for developing a Windows RT app, as I didn't have another windows 8 machine. I'm running VS and SQL Server Dev Edtion without any issues. It's quite nice really. If you plug an external keyboard mouse and monitor into it it's really like any oth

Re: Site for suggestions to Surface Hardware (like Connect)?

2013-06-13 Thread Neil Young
command) > Or you can remap a key from the keyboard using SharpKeys (free via > Codeplex) http://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/ > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Neil Young wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> Slightly off topic (but I am developing a Windows 8 Store

Site for suggestions to Surface Hardware (like Connect)?

2013-06-13 Thread Neil Young
Hi Everyone, Slightly off topic (but I am developing a Windows 8 Store App on the surface Pro - so for me quite on topic). Does anyone know if there is an official site like Connect for the Dev tools where we can request features etc for the Surface hardware? I had a quick web search and other t

Re: JSON issue MVC4.5, EF5

2012-09-26 Thread Neil Young
. Hmmm. > > Is there something I'm missing here? > > T. > > > -Original Message- > From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] > On Behalf Of Neil Young > Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2012 11:45 AM > To: ozDotNet > Subj

Re: JSON issue MVC4.5, EF5

2012-09-26 Thread Neil Young
Without lookig very hard I would suggest that Lazy Loading is not your friend here and the serialization is walking your object graph and failing. Few options you can run with query with: 1. a MergeOption of NoTracking (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsimmons/archive/2010/01/12/ef-merge-options-and-com

Re: Dump EntityFramework for LLBLGen

2012-04-15 Thread Neil Young
David, That's interesting - I'm working on a fairly large in production app using EF at the moment. We're not using POCO and currently have 259 tables in the EDMX. What's the magic number that you ran into? I also must admit that I agree with a lot of the things that Scott and some of the other

Re: SS Reporting Services

2012-02-27 Thread Neil Young
Peter, You can also do quite a lot of stuff from inside the SQL management studio - just when you connect change the server type to reporting services - although I would think that if you can't get in via the web service URL you may not have any luck getting in there either. I can't really tell y

Re: jQuery advanced intellisense

2011-10-21 Thread Neil Young
+1 for resharper 6 - it _almost_ makes javascript development pleasureable :) On 21 October 2011 10:20, Wallace Turner wrote: > did you know about [this][1] already? > >  http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2011/05/resharper-6-enhances-the-javascript-experience/ > > (yes i know this isnt markup but

Re: High performance logging control

2011-10-15 Thread Neil Young
Greg, This reminded me of an app that I'd seen at a clients and I was pretty sure they were using Log4Net - so I did a quick search and this link shows a picture using the coloredconsoleappender which seems to me pretty much what you want - I know it doesn't involve writing any code - but I guess

Re: How to diagnose WCF 'NotFound'

2011-09-19 Thread Neil Young
Greg, You can also put this in the config file on the server side and see if you get a file generated. If so there will more than likely be some info in there for you. Warning it does generate a lot of data quickly. There's some vie

Re: Anyone using Prism?

2011-08-25 Thread Neil Young
We've just finished a project using Caliburn.Micro: http://caliburnmicro.codeplex.com/ It's pretty easy to use and nice a light. We also used MEF as the IOC container, had to do a couple of things (on the server side) that it didn't do out of the box (unless I missed them), such as spinning up o

Re: Entity Framework and Linq

2011-04-17 Thread Neil Young
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] > On Behalf Of Neil Young > Sent: Monday, 18 April 2011 12:10 PM > > To: ozDotNet > Subject: Re: Entity Framework and Linq > > > > Clint, > > > > Have three suggestions. > > > >

Re: Entity Framework and Linq

2011-04-17 Thread Neil Young
Clint, Have three suggestions. 1. We are using EF in a repositry pattern and each repositry has it's own include strategy using the code here (nicely strongly type): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alexj/archive/2009/07/25/tip-28-how-to-implement-include-strategies.aspx, this works really well and the bl

Re: Handling 3rd party assemblies with build servers

2011-02-09 Thread Neil Young
Telerik play nice, we've just got a lib folder with the 3rd party binaries in there. All compiles find on a clean checkout and on the build server. We've done this with both their WPF controls and their MVC controls. Neil. On 10 February 2011 09:42, David Burela wrote: > IIRC for DevExpress, a

Re: EF4 custom views

2011-01-31 Thread Neil Young
Greg, Sorry I'm no help on this one, we were using EF right out of the box on a greenfields application, so I suspect that modified our DB design a little as we went. We don't have any scenarios like the one you describe and I haven't done it as yet. Neil. On 30 January 2011 13:25, Greg Keogh

Re: Entity SQL null parameters

2011-01-26 Thread Neil Young
Greg, We're using EF 4 on a fairly large project, but we're not doing any Entity SQL, it's mostly all Linq to EF with some stored procs thrown in the mix (for the specific SQL Server 2008 bits we need - like filestream, spatial stuff etc) In the above example that you have we'd do something like

Re: Table-valued function support

2010-09-14 Thread Neil Young
Tony, As far as I'm aware Linq to Entities doesn't support Table Valued Parameters. We're using EF4 on a pretty big project at the moment, and the few procs that we've needed to pass tables up to we've just added partial methods on the generated object context, and rolled our own ADO.Net code to

Re: I don't like Linq to Entities

2010-08-09 Thread Neil Young
Bang on Craig. Single does a SELECT TOP (2) when it generates the SQL. On 9 August 2010 14:53, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > Single() shouldn't have to find all results, it just has to check if > there is more than one. > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Michael Minutillo > wrote: >> First shou

Re: Anyone used any 3rd party diagramming tools

2010-07-16 Thread Neil Young
Thanks for the links everyone... I know what I'm doing this saturday afternoon now :) Neil.

Anyone used any 3rd party diagramming tools

2010-07-15 Thread Neil Young
Hey everyone, Just a quick one, wondering if anyone has used any 3rd party diagramming tools? We have a .Net 4 web abb that we want to generate reports showing relationships between things, and it would be nice to generate an image in the report. We don't necessarily need to have them customise

Re: Sql Server Nested Transactions

2010-03-31 Thread Neil Young
Tony, You've probably already sorted this but, thought I'd wade in anyway. There's a couple of things you can look at. The first I would suggest is that table variables do not participate in transactions, so you can insert into these within your transaction, rollback and then insert into your lo