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• Classic Snake in Silverlight 2
  
  Inspired by Dave Wheeler's article in VSJ magazine, I decided it was time to write a simple game in Silverlight 2. The game I chose was the classic game of Snake. Whilst there is no doubt Silverlight 2 is a massive step closer to a.NET environment in the browser, there are still a few bits and pieces that trip you up. As for WPF feature parity things have massively improved since we now have controls, not just simple shapes. There is also now support for data binding and resources. You can play the game here and download the source from here
  .NET Mutterings - Sunday, May 18, 2008
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• EF 4.0 N-Tier Support: Take 2
  
  About a year ago I wrote an article for MSDN Magazine outlining one possible solution to this problem. Following the release of Visual Studio 2010 and.NET 4.0 Beta 2 , the Entity Framework team put out a second CTP for Entity Framework 4.0, which includes enhancements to self-tracking entities. As the name implies, self-tracking entities know how to track their own state , so that it can be transmitted across service boundaries in an n-tier application. The idea is similar to what we’ve been able to do for several years with datasets. Entity Framework 4.0 Move the Northwind.Types.tt
  Tony and Zuzana's World - Thursday, November 12, 2009
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• Trackable DTO’s: Taking N-Tier a Step Further with EF4
  
  About a year ago I wrote an article for MSDN Magazine on how to track change-state on the client and transmit it to a service for persistence using LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, or some other data access stack. Download code for this post here. Not long ago my friend and colleague Richard Blewett wrote a blog post on Self-Tracking Entities in EF4, in which he questioned the service-orientation of Self-Tracking Entities in EF4. Requiring a Java client to implement all that is asking an awful lot, and it couples the client too tightly to the service implementation. and Visual Studio 2010.
  Tony and Zuzana's World - Friday, February 19, 2010
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• Significant Advances in Unit Testing Windows Workflow
  
  Then I heard through some inside sources that this MSDN Magazine article was about to come out: Foundations: Unit Testing Workflows and Activities by Matt Milner. This post describes a unit testing library for testing Windows Workflow Foundations. It is not a framework like HarnessIt , NUnit , or MsTest. Rather it's a library that can be used in conjunction with any of these testing frameworks. Download the library with sample test project here: Kennedy.WorkflowTesting.zip (216 KB). You can also just jump to the code. If you like this post, be sure to. Scott Allen. Thanks Matt! Enjoy!
  Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Sunday, January 18, 2009
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• Hot Off the Presses: SOA Data Access!
  
  I wrote an article for the December issue of MSDN Magazine, which has just hit the streets: The title is: Flexible Data Access With LINQ To SQL And The Entity Framework , and you can download the accompanying code here. The purpose of the article is to provide a practical approach for developing real-world data-driven applications with either LINQ to SQL or the Entity Framework that use a layered, n-tier architecture. My approach compromises on this principle somewhat by having DTO’s that implement an interface called ITrackable that has a single property containing change state.
  Tony and Zuzana's World - Thursday, December 4, 2008
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• Webinar: MEF Explained
  
  Glenn Block , the principal architect of MEF, has written a very good article on MEF in the Feb 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine, where he provides plenty of code samples.  In the process of updating my Exploring.NET course for DevelopMentor, I’ve authored a module on the Managed Extensibility Framework , or MEF for short. also presented a webinar on the topic (video download available soon).  Here are the slides and code for that session. Rather than repeating those here, I’ll limit myself to explaining the overall architecture of MEF and how the various pieces fit together.
  Tony and Zuzana's World - Friday, November 19, 2010
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• T4 POCO Templates for L2S and EF
  
  In my MSDN Magazine article on SOA Data Access I recommend exposing Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) from the Data Access Layer (DAL). These objects should be Plain Old CLR Objects (POCOs) that are Persistent Ignorant (PI), eschewing traces of any particular persistence technology. How’s that for an alphabet soup of acronyms?!) The point here is that the DAL truly encapsulates the API you’re using to fetch and update data, which makes it possible to swap out one data access stack for another without breaking the client. The answer: None. Well, that’s not entirely accurate.
  Tony and Zuzana's World - Friday, January 16, 2009
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