Monthly Archives: March 2012

SWFL .NET Developer User Group Presentation: Entity Framework Code First, Asp.Net Web Api, and HTML/jQuery

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

For the month of March I was the presenter at the SWFL .NET Developer User group.  I am either getting better at this stuff or they are just really loving to be punished.  A big shout out and thanks to … Continue reading →

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Chlodny series Day 5: Brief: What is ASP.NET Web API?

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

ASP.NET Web API is the new product born from WCF for jQuery.  Web API allows services to be created over HTTP rather then utilizing a service contract (SOAP or WS). Web API  creates an avenue for developers to expose data … Continue reading →

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Chlodny series Day 4: Entity Framework Code First Migration

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

Before Entity Framework Code First Migration was introduced in version 4.3.  Developers had a few options if the domain model was different from the database schema. CreateDatabaseIfNotExists : Pretty self explanatory, if on application start Entity Framework cannot find the … Continue reading →

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Chlodny series Day 3: Connect Web Api to Entity Framework

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Now that the existing database has been reversed engineered and the domain classes are set, it is time to wire up those domain classes to the main project. Add the DataAccess project to the ChlodnyWebApi project.

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Chlodny series Day 2: Reverse Engineer Existing Database

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

To continue on with the series of creating an application that utilizes ASP.NET Web API. This demo application utilizes the Chinook database.  In order to use Entity Framework code first with the lease amount of hassle the application will use … Continue reading →

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Chlodny series Day 1: Setup and Explanation

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

Purpose: Create a application that shows off the awesome sauce of Entity Framework Code Frist, Entity Framework Migration, MVC4 WebApi, and HTML5 + other clients This series is to show off a step by step example application that will be … Continue reading →

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How to change the schema for Entity Framework Code First

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

By default Entity Framework will call the dbo user/schema when attempting to communicate with the database.  Today I received an exception because the tables I was calling was not [dbo].[Customer] but [Sales].[Customer].

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Intro to Aspect Oriented Programming with PostSharp–Part 3

Posted on March 9, 2012 by

To continue on from Part 2.  For this article we will talk about one of the aspects I utilize the most OnExceptionAspect Note:  This may be the last generic post, I am working on a new blog series will show … Continue reading →

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Dynamics CRM 2011 Installation: Setup failed to validate specified Reporting Services Report Server

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

If you saw my last Dynamics CRM 2011 Installation: "The instance name must be the same as computer name." I am learning the valuable lesson of when you replicate a VM sys-prep image be sure to change the computer name … Continue reading →

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Dynamics CRM 2011 Installation: "The instance name must be the same as computer name."

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

So today while waiting for things for build and test to run I was playing around with installing Dynamics CRM 2011 and was greeted with an interesting error.

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