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crossing the streams

StreamInsight Checkpoints: What, How and Why?

I’ve been fielding some questions this week on checkpoints in StreamInsight. I’ll share...

Date: 04/09/2012

Sequences and StreamInsight: Initiating a Computation

By Colin Meek, Alex Raizman, and Rafael Fernandez Moctezuma When bridging between temporal streams...

Date: 03/21/2012

LINQ “Macros” in StreamInsight 1.2: Left Outer Join

In an earlier post, I discussed implementation of custom query operators that combine existing...

Date: 07/25/2011

LINQ Queries as Streams and Thread Safety

A few weeks ago, Torsten Grabs – a colleague on the StreamInsight team and accomplished violist –...

Date: 01/27/2011

LINQ Macros

A colleague was asking how to construct a particular LINQ “operator macro” today. Basically, he was...

Date: 01/05/2011

StreamInsight Sequence Integration: Five Easy Pieces

Over the past few weeks, I’ve spent time building a handful of applications using the new sequence...

Date: 10/27/2010

Using and Discovering StreamInsight Instances

Embedding a StreamInsight server instance in your application is easy: using (var server =...

Date: 10/26/2010

Scripting StreamInsight queries

Over the past couple of weeks, a handful of people have asked for help dynamically creating...

Date: 08/31/2010

EF Extensions for Visual Studio 2010

The EF Extensions sample has been updated for Visual Studio 2010. It’s available for download here....

Date: 08/19/2010

InvocationExpression and LINQ to Entities

I talked a little bit about patterns using InvocationExpression in a previous post (you might want...

Date: 12/07/2008

Stored Procedures and First-Class Relationships in the Entity Framework

A user of the EFExtensions library asked me how to retrieve a set of ‘categories’ and their related...

Date: 12/07/2008

EFExtensions update

The EFExtensions helper library has a few updates: - CreateCommand now respects the CommandTimeout...

Date: 12/07/2008

Using LINQ Expressions to Generate Dynamic Methods II

A beta of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 was released on Monday and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) is now...

Date: 05/13/2008

LINQ to Entities: Combining Predicates

Someone asked a great question on the ADO.NET Entity Framework forums yesterday: how do I compose...

Date: 05/02/2008

Using LINQ Expressions to Generate Dynamic Methods

This week at DevConnections in Orlando, I gave a “deep-dive” talk on LINQ. I wanted to give people a...

Date: 04/25/2008

ADO.Entity Framework: Stored Procedure Customization

The ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) allows you to map stored procedures to functions that return typed...

Date: 03/26/2008