WCF Express Interop Bindings

Something that might come as a surprise for somebody who worked with WCF (even for years) but never had to interoperate with another platform than .NET is how much WCF isn’t interoperable out-of-the-box.

It isn’t WCF fault really.  It’s SOAP’s fault and its lousy specs.  Well…  not so much lousy as big, complicated and extremely flexible.  The result is that...

Microsoft StreamInsight Intro

Microsoft released Microsoft StreamInsight with SQL Server 2008 R2.

This is an engine for real time data analysis.  It’s an alternative to traditional BI which typically crunch replicated data.  Instead, StreamInsight let’s you analyse the data as it comes to you (as a stream).

The programming model is built on top of LINQ with the twist that the...

EF Power Tools CTP1 Released

A little while ago, Microsoft released the first CTP of Entity Framework Power Tools.

Those power tools work on top of EF 4.1 and provide the following exciting features:

• Reverse Engineer a Code First Model from an existing database.  Now this comes with the caveat that everything is configured through...

Everything you ever wanted to know about SQL Azure Connection Security

See this TechNet article for a complete description of all the security topics:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/sql-azure-connection-security.aspx

Expression Trees: Part 4 – Simple mapping inversion

This is part of a series of blog post about expression trees in .NET 4.0.  The past blog entries are:

• Basics (1)
• Fetching Properties (2)
• Setting Properties (3)

In this article, I’ll cover simple mapping inversion using Expression Trees (ET).  By simple I mean that we’ll map two objects properties / fields...