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Cache Util and ServiceBase for SubSonic RepositoryRecord items

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:16:09 GMT

As I mentioned, I'm using SubSonic with this project and more specifically, I've been using what will be SubSonic 2.1. I've been quite happy with the work Rob Conery and his team have done with SubSonic. For this project, I chose to go with the RepositoryRecord base class rather than ActiveRecord for my objects. My reasoning was that I end up using services to interact with the objects anyway, so I might as well reduce the "weight" of the objects. The services that I use add basic object caching as well as hide SubSonic integration. In order to facilitate caching RepositoryRecord items, I had to rewrite my CacheUtil class slightly:

EntitySpaces - new esEntityCollectionView class

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:46:03 GMT

The esEntityCollectionView acts like the ADO.NET DataView class only for EntitySpaces Collections. This new class will allow you to have multiple views on the same collection each with a different sort and filter acting independently of other views.

Copying and pasting rectangular blocks of code in Visual Studio and Ma

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:46:02 GMT

Did you know that the Visual Studio and Management Studio editors allow you to copy and paste rectangular areas of code (not just lines of code)? This blog demonstrates how. Very handy when copying and pasting variable names!

Setting Form Values Automatically with SubSonic

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Time saving code to set form values automatically from a SubSonic Active Record object