Q: "SQL run using a SqlTransaction is part of a SQL Server Transaction and can be rolled back." A) True B) False The answer is of course "A", right? That's what I thought too. Basic SqlTransaction Usage Most of us assume that we can write this: using (var con = new SqlConnection("..")) { con.Open();... Continue Reading →
Updated version of Monitored Undo Framework released
Today I released an updated version of the Monitored Undo Framework. Changes include: A new parameter on the DefaultChangeFactory's methods for specifying the "description of the change". This can be helpful in cases where the UI shows a list of the undo / redo changes. A new WPF sample that shows, in a simpler codebase,... Continue Reading →
"tfpt unshelve /migrate" Doesn’t Account for Renames
A quick note about Team Foundation Power Tools (TFPT)'s "Unshelve" command… tfpt unshelve has a /MIGRATE switch that will allow unshelving changes into a different branch / location than the one where they were originally shelved. I won't re-iterate the many articles describing how to use this command. One issue that I ran into is... Continue Reading →
A Visual Studio Extesion to make Scrolling Better!
Hi All, A friend of mine (John Nastase) saw a tweet or two of mine complaining about scrolling in Visual Studio. What did he do? He wrote a VS extension to make it happen!!! Here's the extension that he just published in the VS extension gallery. It basically adds a "cursor buffer" space to the... Continue Reading →
EF Inserts Failing Because of Missing Association in SSDL
I just found that Entity Framework (4.0) can stumble on One-To-One relationships if the EDMX's schema storage layer (SSDL) is missing the association that represents the Foreign Key in the database. I suppose this makes sense, but it's only obvious to me in hindsight. I don't know how my EDMX ended up missing the SSDL... Continue Reading →
