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ASP .NET Query Projections – Part 4
Now that we’ve done all the hard work creating hooks and interfaces in previous posts creating the actual Selector is relatively simple.
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ASP .NET Query Projections – Part 3
In this post we are quickly going to discuss the need for a consistent way for our binding controls to let our selector class know exactly what to project. I will illustrate the problem by comparing the telerik controls RadComboBox and RadGrid.
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ASP .NET Query Projections – Part 2
In this part we will derive from ObjectDataSource to put in place a hook that our selector can latch onto. When delving into the workings of the ObjectDataSource it also became clear that we have to also override the ObjectDataSourceView that it uses. The location of the hook actually sits here.
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ASP .NET Query Projections – Part 1
When upgrading to use Entity Framework we are also in the process of trying to change all appropriate business layer calls to IQueryable – the main point of which was so that our UI can define specific projections on the data as it needs. Unfortunately we found no way that we could attach to a BL using some kind of DataSource and have this projection capability. So this post is out to create one.
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Extending Entities using T4
In this post I’m going to talk about extending EF entities to encapsulate common functionality. For this particular case I will expand upon the concept in this blog post EF4 Part 2: EDM Inheritance Pains.