Re: Propagate Database changes to application

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Liedig
Grant, Another way to do it would be to push changes to your application based on an update event occurring in your system. Whenever data changes, publish a my data has just been updated event and notify your clients of the update. This would negate the need to do unnecessary polling and remove

Re: EF gurus

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Price
Well. Looks like I've narrowed it down to a workaround. Firstly, the issue has nothing to do with EF. Embarrassingly, it was client side, and I totally blame my learning two technologies simultaneously, in combination with the irresponsible usage of the word/classname 'Entity' by RIA Services,

Re: [OT] SQL Server Windows Authentication

2011-03-28 Thread Greg Wood
Hi Greg K, I see you can only use sa. If you make a new sql login user on the SQL Server and give it sysadmin does it see the databases just like sa? Greg Greg Wood g...@woodgreg.com 0417044439 On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Hi Greg L and others, I’ve

Tracking PostBack in a usercontrol?

2011-03-28 Thread Anthony
Anyone have a technique they use to detect IsPostback on a asp.net custom user control? You suggestion would be appreciated..i have searched the net and seen many techniques.but I know some are incorrect. Eg You cannot use page.ispostback in a user control! regards Anthony

Re: Databases for Local apps

2011-03-28 Thread Greg Wood
I've been waiting for someone to use - http://simonwillison.net/static/2010/redis-tutorial/ Let us know how it goes. Greg Wood g...@woodgreg.com 0417044439 On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: ESENT looks... interesting. Sounds similar to Isolated storage.

Re: Propagate Database changes to application

2011-03-28 Thread Greg Wood
I presume SQL Server 2008, so a data driven subscription is probably your choice. You will see that MS dropped Notification Services, as no one used it. Good luck! Greg Wood g...@woodgreg.com 0417044439 On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Stephen Liedig slie...@gmail.com wrote: Grant,

Re: Propagate Database changes to application

2011-03-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
What type of client is it? Do you control the means by which data is written to the table? Are clients deployed to the internet or intranet? What kind of database are we talking about here (I assume you mean SQL Server, since you mention SqlDependency) but which version? Joseph On Mon, Mar 28,

RE: Databases for Local apps

2011-03-28 Thread Greg Keogh
I've been waiting for someone to use - http://simonwillison.net/static/2010/redis-tutorial/ Let us know how it goes. I can't see any managed code library to use Redis. It says it's scalable, but then it says it stores everything in memory. It claims to be basically a key-value store (I

RE: [OT] SQL Server Windows Authentication

2011-03-28 Thread Greg Keogh
Sorry folks, I emailed Greg L (too many Greg's?!) a few days ago to tell him I found a solution to my problem where I can't connect with Windows Authentication. Greg W's suggestion is almost what I did: I created a domain Group called 'SQL Administrators', put myself in it and then added that

Re: Propagate Database changes to application

2011-03-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
Re: client type - I was more wondering is it a web app? Windows app? Silverlight? Windows intranet app could do udp broadcast of changes from the server or something like that. Sent from my iPhone On 29/03/2011, at 8:18 AM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone for

Re: Databases for Local apps

2011-03-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
My vote would be for sqlite. Iirr it supports EF, is quite fast and rock solid. On 27/03/2011, at 12:20 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Hey all, Was thinking about a small app and it's not big enough to need an SQL database. I want it to be a single user deal and i'm

HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort?

2011-03-28 Thread James Chapman-Smith
Hi folks, I got asked a question today that I don't really have the experience to answer and was hoping someone here could help. If I'm going to develop a new web-based application in HTML or Silverlight, what would the comparative effort be like? And really, what kind of pros cons are worth

RE: HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort?

2011-03-28 Thread James Chapman-Smith
Hi David, Good point, I didn't mention the target market. We're doing a corporate app. It'll be deployed on a server within the companies. We're only expecting PC possible Mac clients. Cheers. James. From: David Connors [mailto:da...@codify.com] Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:03 To:

Re: HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort?

2011-03-28 Thread David Connors
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:48 PM, James Chapman-Smith ja...@chapman-smith.com wrote: Good point, I didn't mention the target market. We're doing a corporate app. It'll be deployed on a server within the companies. We're only expecting PC possible Mac clients. If you're doing a corporate

Re: HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort?

2011-03-28 Thread David Burela
My general rule of thumb is: *Public facing* - technology choice defaults to ASP.Net MVC *Internal Line of Business app* - depends on how interactive you want it to be. I usually default to Silverlight because of the ease of doing animations, visual bling, etc. -David Burela On 29 March 2011