http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz C# • Delphi • Entity Framework • Functional Programming • InterBase • MVC • .NET • Web Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:48:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US One very popular option for implementing user security in ASP.NET is to use Forms Authentication with the SQL Server membership provider. This provider creates several database tables to store user-related information, as well as a number stored procedures. From time to time, a developer will attempt to add the ASP.NET Membership/Forms ... http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2010/03/05/38558/ Version 3.5.2 of jqGrid included an important new feature: Now when autoencode is set to true we encode the data coming from server and not only when we post it (secutity fix) Prior to this, you were required to encode the data yourself. Now personally, I think that should be the default. But ... http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2010/02/08/38548/ As you're probably aware, an Entity Framework model is stored in a single XML file, with the extension EDMX. Developers occasionally ask if this means that two people cannot work on the entity model concurrently. My answer to this is, "It depends." But I can give you some tips to ... http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2010/02/03/38542/ In this post I will demonstrate that use of the join keyword in LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities is nearly always wrong. LINQ queries which you write with the join keyword are harder to read and write than queries you write using associations, and they require knowledge of ... http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2010/01/13/38525/ DotNetSlackers just published a crossword puzzle I created; you'll see the grid below. The puzzle is focused on .NET and programming themes, including a Delphi reference here and there. The site editors wanted an article to go with the puzzle, so I wrote an article explaining how I created the ... http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2010/01/11/38518/ In this post, I will demonstrate how to map entity models to views in an ASP.NET MVC application without worrying about implementation details like eager loading, lazy loading, or having to manually optimize SQL for the task at hand. I will argue that expressing the relationship between an entity model ... http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2009/12/31/38500/ If you're doing commercial Delphi development and you're not already doing static analysis in your automated build, go buy CodeHealer now. Nick Hodges has arranged a 1/2 price special offer. There is no good reason not to use static analysis. If you are the sort of person who doesn't allow hints ... http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2009/12/22/38495/ Jim McKeeth interviewed me for Episode 34 of The Podcast At Delphi.org.Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2009/10/21/38492/ Last week, I updated our main development branch to ASP.NET MVC 2 preview 2 (from preview 1). In this post, I'll list some of the features I've found, and also issues I encountered and how I resolved them. New Features Some of the new features of preview 2 have been discussed elsewhere, ... http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2009/10/05/38476/ C#, C++, and Delphi all have a generic type and method language feature. Although all three languages are statically typed, they implement generics in very different ways. I'm going to give a brief overview of the differences, both in terms of language features and implementation. I presume that Delphi Prism ... http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2009/10/01/38465/