Jason Rowe

Be curious! Choose your own adventure.

Tag: .Net

  • Shiny New Toys, Visitor Pattern, and Real World Functional Programming

      Last week in the office I thought to my self, “Holiday weekend coming! I’ll have time to play with WP7 or maybe I’ll play with HTML5”. Then I saw this tweet on twitter. We as developers spend too much time playing with baubles and shiny new tools and not enough time on core skills […]

  • Top 5 Features of Code First Entity Framework CTP4

      The latest release of Entity Framework CTP4 has some nice but unexpected changes. They introduced DbContext and DbSet to simplify model caching, database provisioning, schema creation and connection management. Here are my top 5 favorite features of the release. Less code and fewer Concepts. The coolest part is the use of convention over configuration. […]

  • Recursive LINQ Query Example

    I found this Traverse extension post on MSDN while searching for a good recursion example in Linq. I know it’s a little dated but Hey! We all learn at our own pace and mine is a little sloooower when it comes to Linq I really got a lot out of this code snippet in terms of […]