I posted an update to the VFP EF Provider. Changes: Bug: Fixed an issue with getting the schema information when the connecting to free tables. Installer: Modified the installer so that it will update the machine.config… so there is no …
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Introduction Another VFP EF Provider build is ready for testing. The focus of this build was to get the provider to work with “Code First” scenarios. The remain of this blog entry will walk you though a simple example of …
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Introduction I’m back it again… working on another LINQ provider for Visual FoxPro data. Introduced back in 2009, LINQ to VFP was my first attempt at writing a LINQ provider that accessed Visual FoxPro data. That provider worked well but …
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The default IQToolkit Insert method always seemed a little odd to me in that it didn’t populate an auto generated primary key property after executing the Insert statement. The following image demonstrates this issue. Notice how the Categoryid is 0 …
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A LINQ to VFP user recently suggested that I write a LINQPad provider that could be used to access VFP data. This sounded like an interesting idea so I gave it a shot… This blog entry provides a simple overview …
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About a year ago I wrote a blog entry explaining a change that was made to LINQ to VFP to help prevent the VFP error “1812 – Statement too long.” To be honest, I was never really satisfied with the …
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I’ve been working on a project that uses WCF Data Services for data access on a DMZ server. The application was designed to work directly with LINQ to VFP on the intranet but use WCF Data Services on the extranet/DMZ …
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In the last 10 years or so that I’ve been working with VFP I’ve only encountered the “Statement too long” error a handful of times. Within VFP, I found that this error could be handled in two ways. One way …
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Download When I first started using LINQ to VFP I didn’t mind manually writing Entity classes and mapping the data but after awhile I found it to become a tedious task. So I decided to write a code generation application …
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I recently decided to write a code generation application using the Spark View Engine. I started off by reviewing the provided Samples Solution and found the EmailOrTextTemplating Project. This Project seemed to be a perfect example of what I needed. …
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Tom Brothers