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The following are some tips when building a business object class for use by Silverlight and RIA services. NOTE: This assumes you are not using Entity Framework (EF). Use Class-Level Validation Specifying class-level validation allows you to perform validation...
OK, no more SSDT jokes! SSDT, or SQL Server Data Tools, give you the features of SQL Server Management Studio within Visual Studio 2012. You can use the SQL Server Object Explorer from the SSDT to create and maintain tables in your databases. See this...
No, SSDT is not a disease; it is a set of SQL Server Data Tools that are included as part of Visual Studio 2012. You can use the SQL Server Object Explorer from the SSDT to maintain or view your databases. See this link for an introduction to SQL Server...
If you use Visual Studio AND SQL Server Management Studio, you'll be glad to hear that the SQL Server Management Studio tools, called SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), are now a part of Visual Studio 2012. You can create, edit, and delete SQL Server tables...
The virtues of a Web API Help Page were extolled in a prior post . That prior post demonstrated the "out of the box" functionality of the Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Help Page. This post extends that functionality to include the XML comments from...
If your ASP.NET Web API service is on the 'net and no one is around to explain it, does it provide a service? Unlike no one hearing the tree falling in the woods, this question is more than a philosophical thought experiment. It could be a big issue...
One of the new unit testing features in VS 2012 (Premium or Ultimate) is the continuous test runner. When turned on, it automatically executes your unit tests after every successful build. Digressing a moment … in the early 1990's Shari Lewis and...
There is nothing perfect in life, not even an ASP.NET Web API service. The service may not understand the provided parameters, or may not find the requested data, or may have trouble connecting to the database. Whatever the issue, if the service cannot...
An ASP.NET Web API service provides support for many different types of client applications. One such client is a JavaScript application. This post provides a very simple JavaScript client you can use to test your Web API service. [See this prior post...
Internet Explorer 9 allows you to see the HTTP request and response information using the F12 developer tools. This can be useful when debugging or testing your ASP.NET Web API service. [See this prior post for an introduction to building an ASP.NET Web...
This post demonstrates how to use the ASP.NET Web API to access plain old custom objects (POCO) and build a service for a line of business application. No Entity Framework (EF). The Web API is a new easy-to-use framework that allows you to build a service...
One of the new things about testing in Visual Studio 2012 is that it is now available in *all* editions of Visual Studio all the way to Visual Studio Express! The Test Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 replaces the Test View window in Visual Studio...
OK 101 is an exaggeration, but there are many ways to run your tests in Visual Studio 2012. From the test code file While you are writing or editing a test method, you can right click anywhere within the method and run or debug the test. [Red rectangle...
Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer has extensive searching and limited grouping capabilities. (Visual Studio 2010's Test View window had more grouping options by way of its many sorting parameters.) Searching Entering text into the Test Explorer Search...
In Visual Studio 2012, the Visual Studio 2010 Test View window has been replaced by a new Test Explorer window. By default, it appears on the left side of the Visual Studio Interactive Development Environment (IDE) as shown below: (Red box added for illustration...
There are lots of new Solution Explorer features in Visual Studio 2012, so many that they did not all fit into one blog post. The following are posts that outline the new features: Solution Explorer Sync'ing in Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio 2012...
This is just a little feature, but a very useful one: Solution Explorer now allows you to control the sync to the currently active tab. In prior versions of Visual Studio, Solution Explorer automatically synchronized its position to the active tab. When...
As you debug and refactor your application, you often want to know who called whom. Visual Studio has always provided features to help you with that, but Visual Studio 2012 provides more. With the following, you can determine which properties and methods...
In prior versions of Visual Studio, the Solution Explorer has been basically static. With Visual Studio 2012, it is much more dynamic with features such as filtering and scoping. [For information on the filtering features, see this prior blog post .]...
In prior versions of Visual Studio, the Solution Explorer has been basically static. With Visual Studio 2012, it is much more dynamic with features such as filtering and scoping. [For information on the scoping features, see this prior blog post .] The...
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