Digital Ruminations

Discourses on divers matters related to computers and their programming, lead by your humble host Mathew Charles.

RIA Services Output Caching

It has come to my attention that we haven’t published any good resources on an important...

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 01/05/2011

ComplexTypes in RIA Services

Our team has just released WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta and WCF RIA Services Toolkit October 2010!...

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 10/28/2010

Direct EntityQuery Execution - “Non-Accumulating execution”

For a while internally on the team we’ve discussed the need for an easy way to invoke a query...

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 04/21/2010

DomainService Error Handling

When errors occur server side in a DomainService during request processing, your customErrors...

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 12/06/2009

EF v2 Goodness + RIA Services

If you’ve spent any time on the RIA Services forums or attempting to use our...

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 11/19/2009

Composition Support in RIA Services

I’m having a great time at PDC 2009 talking to customers about Silverlight and RIA Services....

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 11/18/2009

.NET RIA Services July CTP

After much work, our team just released the July CTP of .NET RIA Services. We're releasing this CTP...

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 07/10/2009

Devs Writing Haiku?

A while back Jomo Fisher on our team started a rather interesting tradition. It all began one day...

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 08/30/2007

Linq To Sql POCO Support

A colleague and I were recently discussing POCO support in Linq To Sql (LTS), and he pointed me to a...

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 08/28/2007

C# LINQ to SQL Chat

We just had another community chat yesterday on Linq to Sql (aka DLinq) - you can access a copy of...

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 12/13/2006

DLinq User-Defined Function support

[Updated on 8/30/2007: Code samples below updated for Beta2. The main thing we did was simplify the...

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 06/13/2006

Spring Linq CTP finally hits the shelves!

[Updated on 8/30/2007: Code samples below updated for Beta2. The main thing we did was simplify the...

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 05/10/2006

Genesis...

As a first post, I'll introduce myself, and state briefly my intention for this blog going forward....

Author: Mathew Charles Date: 02/13/2006