For the first time I’m experimenting with Linq-to-Sql (L2S). Microsoft targets L2S for the simpler scenario’s/architectures (if that scares you, just let me say that stackoverflow.com is running on L2S!). Because of this, a Detach() method is not supported. For these kind of scenario’s, Microsoft wants developers to use the Entity Framework. One could argue [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Intellisense broken in Visual Studio 2010
I recently installed a new laptop with all the dev software. Most importantly, Visual Studio 2010 and the DevExpress productivity tools. At some point, intellisense was working strange. I didn’t give it much attention at the time. But after a while it really started to annoy me. At first, I thought it was some kind [...]
Timestamp and Rowversion columns
To check concurrency violations, it’s common to have a Timestamp column. This column represents some kind of version of that row, and has nothing to do with the actual time. In fact, the information is stored as binary(8) when non-nullable, and varbinary(8) when nullable. Anyway, the value in this column is being used to check [...]