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Entity Framework 4 and Complex types

2010-11-15T20:23:00.001+01:00

Whilst trying to create a complex type as a return type for a stored procedure, I was encountering the same problem over and over again, when I clicked on "Get Column Information" no data would show up. It was pretty frustrating, so after a little digging up (or googling if you will) I figured out what the problem is. Not sure if it 's something that happens in all stored procedures because I never had this problem before.

I had to set FMTONLY off. Once I did that, it worked.

So here's the code:

BEGIN
-- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
-- interfering with SELECT statements.
SET NOCOUNT ON;
SET FMTONLY OFF;

SELECT.......

END

Microsoft’s Silverlight 3 gets an early launch

2009-07-10T19:52:00.002+02:00

Silverlight 3 has been launched today, Microsoft’s competitor to Adobe’s Flash player has released it’s third version of silverlight today. Silverlight is, like it’s competitor, cross-browser and cross-platform.

Microsoft has mentioned that in the new version it has improved streaming capabilities, called Smooth Streaming.

If the Internet bandwidth and video rendering capability on your playback device are sufficiently high, you’ll experience high-definition video playback of the sample content. You will also be able to simulate end user experiences under varying conditions by simulating drops and recoveries in bandwidth. If your actual bandwidth is below 3 Mbps, or your playback device is video-challenged, then you will experience the adaptive nature of Smooth Streaming without needing to simulate a bandwidth cap.

Silverlight is also a competitor to Adobe Air, as Microsoft has extended it’s technologies beyond the browser thus allowing developers to create applications that can run directly on one’s desktop.

Google Shared Stuff Discontinued

2009-07-10T12:24:00.003+02:00

This project was discontinued quite a long time ago, it was replaced by other google products such as bookmarks

Google Shared Stuff

2007-09-20T14:56:00.000+02:00

Google have released a Social Link Sharing website (Social bookmarking website). This enables the users that with one click of a button they can write a small description of the website and it will be listed on their profile. Other people will be able to view your profile and the links you posted.

Full article here.
My Profile here.

Google Presentations Released

2007-09-18T12:13:00.000+02:00

After a long wait, Google finally release the Google Presentations in Google Office (docs.google.com)

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My-Linx.com

2007-09-13T23:26:00.000+02:00

This is basically a review of a website of a friend of mine which I'm working with.

My-Linx.com is a social bookmarking website, if you are not familiar with this, basically you just go in it and there are a lot of links submitted by several people.

So there are others?
Yes, there are others like My-Linx, but it's different from any other for simple reason, since it's a community based website, the community makes big difference. My-linx's community is mostly Maltese people, which makes links more interesting for us all.

Does that mean that only Maltese people use it?
No, there's a big audience from the whole world.

What is submitted on my-linx?
Well, there's a lot of tech news, but this does not mean that it's only based on tech news. Anything is posted on my-linx, from the funniest to the most serious news.

Some information about the creator
This is a one man project with a lot of support and ideas. Bernard Gatt, who works as a full time developer has been spending sleepless nights and long coding weekends to give us such a product, he is always adding features to the website and makes everyone happy. Always happy to hear ideas, and tries his best to make them happen.

Message to developers
My-Linx API is soon out so prepare for some nifty coding.

Wierd Tatoo

2007-07-27T11:36:00.000+02:00

I guess there are geeks around. So this guy was so kind as to put a tatoo of an exception OE, basically a classy blue screen of death.

Wouldn't you want to do this? I know I wouldn't!

Click on image to view original image or here to download

Microsoft finally admits

2007-07-13T08:04:00.000+02:00

Microsoft finally admitted that there is a design defect on the xbox360 that can lead to the console's failure. Microsoft refused to elaborate on the issue. All the current 11.6 million consoles in the hands of the consumers are effected by this news. The bad news is that Microsoft did not call a global recall but the good news is that they tripled the warranty coverage period and have invested $1billion on fixing the consumer's xbox360.

myPoll

2007-07-12T13:59:00.000+02:00

Yet another feature has been added to the blog, the Poll feature. This will enable me to create frequent polls to the blog, I'm awaiting your activity in the blog.

Enjoy!

Comment!

2007-07-12T13:43:00.000+02:00

Dear All,

Blogspot allows users to post comments on blogs, I would like to see feedback from anyone about the blogs that I am posting.

So please go ahead and comment

Regards
Daryl

Stikkit

2007-07-11T14:05:00.000+02:00

Stikkit is a web application basically what it does, it lets you put sticky notes which include to-dos, simple notes, contacts etc.

What's so special about it?
Most of you must be asking yourself, whats so special about stikkit, its just some application which allows you to write notes, well no, it's not just that, stikkit knows what you're writing, all the things you do in it you can do by just writing. for example when you write a name and e-mail address, telephone number etc, it will know its a contact you're adding. If you say you want to share this with contact1, contact2, contact3, and say notify all, the system will automatically notify them.

But you have to try it yourself to know what I'm talking about...

iPhone Filesystem

2007-07-11T08:53:00.000+02:00

Apparently Apple have blocked access to the iPhone File System, this meant that you could not put ring tones in your own mobile which you pay lots of money for.

This has all been fixed when a kid hacked into the system by acquiring a root password.

Anyway more information about the story is here

Ads By Google

2007-07-10T16:33:00.000+02:00

I have now added a new feature in my blog, which is the advertisements you are seeing on the bottom right of your page, I encourage you to use them and support the companies that pay a large amount of money to advertise on Google.

Thanks,
Daryl

Blogging

2007-07-10T10:58:00.000+02:00

Okay so first of all I want to introduce myself, I am Daryl, 19 yrs young :). I have decided to start blogging about anything interesting I find and anything related to me and so on. I hope you enjoy reading this blog as much as I will be enjoying doing it.

Thanks,
Daryl