IBloggable - implemented

I did a primer on using WCF Data Services in my last post. One of the things I’m seeing about the posts regarding WCF Data Services using OData is that they used Entity Framework to do the DAL work. So a lot of underlying work gets hidden by using EF. Here is a post that allows you to connect to any database using the traditional ADO.NET way.

Open Data Protocol (OData for short) allows CRUD operations on your data by exposing it as a resource accessible through a URI. So you can try something like below directly on the browser to get a collection of all employees less than 26 years of age.

http://somesite.com/EmployeeService.svc/Employees?$filter=Age lt 26

With VS2010 SP1, you can attach an application process to IISExpress to enable debugging of an application. Here’s how:

The 19th of April will remain a special day for us for the rest of our lives. Pallavi and I had our first one on this day at 1:25a. Ayush was 3.4kg (7.48lb) at birth. Both Mom and son are doing good.

In my previous blog, I wrote about how to use inheritance through entity framework on SQL CE database. In this blog however, I’ll explore how you can run a typical SQL query statement on the database table and read/write the values. I will build on the application that I used in the last article.

For some (unknown) reason, I’ve been curious to work with SQL CE, just hadn’t gotten a chance to work with it. If you’re not familiar with what SQL CE is all about, go through this article from Scott Gu.

I’m guessing people have at least heard of Productivity Power Tools plug-in for Visual Studio. If not, I strongly recommend you give it a shot.

So I upgraded to IE9 and continued exploring HTML5. Now there’s this ‘thing’ called Canvas in HTML5 with which you can do some cool stuff.