Comments for Matt Duffield

Comment on Writing a BrightScript syntax highlight extension for Visual Studio 2010 by Arlen

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Comment on Developing Windows 8 – Using AppBarCommand Icons outside the AppBar by Will

Will — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:50:15 +0000

Fantastic! I’ve been looking all over to find out how I can do this.
It makes complete sense that Windows uses an icon font though, smart thinking Microsoft for embracing the new.

Comment on Dynamically changing the connection string for WCF RIA Services Linq2Entities by Cliff Strass

Cliff Strass — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:24:46 +0000

To solve this I basically added the client ID or database ID to the WCF header before making the RIA services call to the server. At the server end I ‘pick-up’ the database ID and lookup the connection string and pass it along to the domain context when instantiating it.
Works like a charm. Here is a thread from Kyle McClellan (from the RIA services team) explaining in more detail (with code) how this is done.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/id-ID/silverlightwcf/thread/a74b563e-1df5-456f-b628-a068557f0bb3

Hope it helps anyone else.
Thanks, Cliff.

Comment on Dynamically changing the connection string for WCF RIA Services Linq2Entities by mattduffield

mattduffield — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:49:12 +0000

Hi Cliff,

The short answer is yes. Once I authenticate a user, then I present them with a dropdown of business entities that they can perform their work on behalf. This is a generic solution and it should work for most scenarios where you have two-step authentication where you first authenticate is a separate database that holds the connections to all other databases. This way you can extend and add as many other databases connections you want in the future without recompile or redeploying.

Hope that helps,

Matt

Comment on Dynamically changing the connection string for WCF RIA Services Linq2Entities by Cliff Strass

Cliff Strass — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:53:32 +0000

Great article Matt. I have implemented this and all works great. One question .. Is there a way to change the connection string per query? That is I want to create the connection string from a UI drop-down. With this in place the end-user can select which db instance to query against.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks Cliff.

Comment on Developing Windows 8 – Documents Library and your developer account type by Scott Nimrod

Scott Nimrod — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:50:07 +0000

There’s also FutureAccessList that you can use that will return a token id when you call it’s Add method.

Comment on Developing Windows 8 – Documents Library and your developer account type by mattduffield

mattduffield — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:22:22 +0000

You will be presented a listing of all the apps that support that file type.

Comment on Developing Windows 8 – Documents Library and your developer account type by Scott Nimrod

Scott Nimrod — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:43:48 +0000

What if I need other apps to access this file?

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