If you’ve flipped on the POCO (Plain Ol’ CLR Objects) code generation T4 templates for Entity Framework to enable testing or just ’cuz you like the code better, you might find that you lack the ability to expose that same model via Data Services as OData (Open Data). If you surf to the feed, you’ll likely see something like this:

What my team does on an average Wednesday afternoon:

We have a series of free, day-long events we’re doing around the world to show off the beauty and wonder that is the Open Data Protocol. In the morning we’ll be showing you OData and in the afternoon we’ll help you get your OData services up and running. Come one, come all!

• New York, NY - May 12, 2010
• Chicago, IL - May 14, 2010
• Mountain View, CA - May 18, 2010
• Shanghai, China - June 1, 2010
• Tokyo, Japan - June 3, 2010
• Reading, United Kingdom - June 15, 2010
• Paris, France - June 17, 2010

Here’s what Kraig has to say about the November 2010 SQL Server Model CTP that matches the RTM of Visual Studio 2010:

A update of the SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009) that’s compatible with the official (RTM) release of Visual Studio 2010 is now available on the Microsoft Download Center.  This release is strictly an updated version of the original November 2009 CTP release to support the final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.

It all started innocently enough. I was implementing a “Older Posts/Newer Posts” feature for my new web site and was writing code like this:

IEnumerable<Post> FilterByCategory(IEnumerable<Post> posts, string category) {
  if( !string.IsNullOrEmpty(category) ) {
    return posts.Where(p => p.Category.Contains(category));
  }
}
...
  var posts = FilterByCategory(db.Posts, category);
  int count = posts.Count();
...

I went to a college planning sessions at my sons’ high school not because I’m hung up on getting my Sophomore into a top school, but because I thought I’d get a jump on things. I learned I was actually behind.

For one, I learned that the high school has an online system that will do some amazing things:

I was playing around building a tool to let me edit a database table in Excel, so I updated my CvsFileTester project to work in a modern world, including the 32-bit only Jet 4.0 driver you’ve probably go lying around on your HD.

Enjoy.

I’ve been futzing with the site and I’ve got more to do, so unexpected things may happen. Last weekend I screwed with the RSS generator and that caused a bunch of folks to see RSS entries again. This weekend I’m moving more of my static content into the database, so you may see a bunch of old stuff pop up.

Feel free to drop me a line if you see anything you think needs fixing. Thanks for your patience.