Author Archives: Matt Hidinger

Windows Phone Unleashed @ TechWeek Chicago

Starting today and running through next Friday, July 29th is TechWeek Chicago. TechWeek is a week of conference, expo and events with over 2,000 entrepreneurs, business leaders, and innovators, 4 days of conference sessions, over 150 international speakers, 4 days … Continue reading

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Effectively serializing data to WP7 using JSON and ASP.NET MVC

At PDC’10 last year Microsoft showed their upcoming solution for sharing assemblies between different platforms (Windows Phone, Silverlight, and .NET) – dubbed Portable Library Projects. The release date is said to be H1 2011 so hopefully they are still on … Continue reading

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Customizing the Entity Framework T4 Template, suppressing code analysis

As a brief recap, the reason this post even exists is because the generated code from the EF4 designer does not properly suppress code analysis warnings. In that post, I mentioned that I would provide a proper T4 template and … Continue reading

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Presenting at Chicago Architects Group on Onion Architecture

I will be giving a talk at the Chicago Architects Group on Onion Architecture next week, details below. This is a completely free event, and of course, pizza will be provided. When Tuesday, April 20, 2010 from 5:00 PM – 8:00 … Continue reading

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Cryptic Entity Framework exception when a table is missing a primary key

Unable to update the EntitySet ‘PlanPriceHistory’ because it has a DefiningQuery and no <InsertFunction> element exists in the <ModificationFunctionMapping> element to support the current operation. While I was getting my feet wet in Entity Framework 4 (from the Visual Studio … Continue reading

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