Author: Craig Stuntz
In an application which uses the Entity Framework, you may see the following error at runtime:
MetadataException: Unable to load the specified metadata resource
The cause of this error is a missing or malformed Entity Framework connection string. In particular, the cause of this error is the metadata parameter of the connection string. Let’s examine this more…
Author: Craig Stuntz
If you have a list, array, or query in a C#/LINQ application and need to check and see if the list is empty, the correct way to do this is to use the Any() extension method:
if (q.Any())
{
Similarly, you can check to see if any elements in the list…
Author: Craig Stuntz
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote What Is Homomorphic Encryption, and Why Should I Care? In that post, I promised to share my C# implementation of the algorithm from Craig Gentry’s CACM article. Before I can do that, though, I need to explain some of…
Updated: 28 November, 2021
Author: Craig Stuntz
What Is Homomorphic Encryption?
“Homomorphic” is an adjective which describes a property of an encryption scheme. That property, in simple terms, is the ability to perform computations on the ciphertext without decrypting it first. Because this tends to sound either baffling or miraculous the first time you hear it, let’s begin…
Author: Craig Stuntz
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…
Author: Craig Stuntz
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…
join in LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities Considered Messy, Redundant
January 13, 2010
Author: Alf Christophersen
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 database metadata which is not required otherwise. This introduces the potential for errors and…
Author: Adrian Z1428
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I am very happy I was granted permission to talk about the new features present in Delphi 2010 concerning database area.
DataSnap 2010 (DS2010) extended the list of server method parameter types with the full suite of JSON types.
It is now…
Author: Marc Geldon
Calling IQueryable<T>.Skip(0) seems like it should be “free.” In other words, since it will have no effect on the resulting data, there should be little to no performance cost for calling it. But this is demonstrably not true in LINQ to…
Author: Craig Stuntz
I’m going to demonstrate how to use the open-source DayPilot Lite calendar control in an ASP.NET MVC application. I will discuss the capabilities of the control and consider the general problem of how to use controls designed for “plain” ASP.NET in MVC applications. I’m including a demo solution which you can download and run yourself.
Download the demo…
