Saving Changes is Not Permitted?

In order to test drive the data modeling features of SS2008, I decided to use the engine for a real-world application.  I’m now attempting to use SQL Server to manage the Bateman household.  My first table in the design is a simple list of chores that we need to make sure get done around the [...]

Partial Classes and Inheritance

Since VS2005 created the ability to use partial classes, the feature has been available to developers across the .NET community.  This post is to provide a quick description of using inheritance and an example I found it to be particularly useful.
According to Microsoft, partial classes are most useful in these scenarios:

When working on large projects, spreading [...]

The Mystique of CodeGen

For a few years now, there seems to be a lot of buzz about “CodeGen” as if it were some magical technology that is going to completely transform the software creation process. The boring lines of code that monkeys could probably write will now be magically created for us thanks to the quantum advances in [...]