Entity Framework 4 and Complex types

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

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

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

Google Shared Stuff

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

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

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My-Linx.com

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

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!

















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