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I posted both slides and demo code from my "Making ORM applications more secure/Naredimo ORM aplikacije varnejše" presentation held at Bleeding Edge conference in Portorož on 1.10.2008.The material is in Slovene language. Enjoy.

I am proud to announce that today, after years of experience with LLBLGenPro development, I've become an official LLBLGenPro partner. As such I am offering consultancy and development with LLBLGenPro, the #1 ORM product for .net. Do you want to speed up your database application development, reduce the number of errors in code, develop a ...

Did you ever wanted to mock a sealed class or non-virtual methods? Unless you are using TypeMock you are in for some coding as there is no easy way to mock them just like that (I am fiddling with MOQ but AFAIK no mock framework is capable of mocking sealed classes with exception of TypeMock). The general pattern I see is to create a wrapper class ...

As a (late) new year gift I've removed annoying expiration restriction from my dataset debugger visualizer. Find the 0.9.12 update here. I've also rebuilt it for Visual Studio 2008 version which will be the only one supported from now on. Find the 0.9.12 version for 2008 here. Read more about Righthand Dataset Debugger Visualizer.

RightHand.DataSet.Visualizer is an MDI application that lets you inspect DataSet structure and its data plus tons of other useful operations on DataSet. Why would I need a DataSet visualizer?How often does a programmer wonder what data a dataset holds? It is certainly not easy to see the data in regular debugger windows. It is even harder to check ...

As Somasegar and other softies announced, Orcas beta 2 (and .net 3.5 beta 2 with go-live license) is available for download. Silverlight 1.0 RC will follow shortly. Go get the bits and bytes from here. And don't forget to run a post-install script to avoid problems.

In case you are playing with ADO.NET Entity Framework you might have seen that, by default, when you have timestamp columns in a new entity they are being inserted into the database when inserting and saving new entity. This behavior isn't a correct one, since timestamps are server generated, and one gets a clear exception from SQL ...

As many reported (including me), ADO.NET team decided to postpone the EDM designer after Orcas/.NET 3.5 RTM. With this move they basically frozen the use of EF in real applications (wizard is very limited, typing all that XML is not really an option) until EDM sees the light of the day. Now it is getting even worse. They decided to ...

Orcas is bringing two similar but different LINQed ORM approaches: LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework/LINQ to Entities. I thought that it is about time to try out the later, so I created a new project and fired up Entity Data Model (EDM) Wizard (the only way to avoid typing all that XML definitions for now*). The result was a bunch of ...