Syrinx Consulting

I recently had the opportunity to help a client save a considerable amount of time by replacing a time consuming, mostly manual process with a fully automated service.  The client has many locations throughout the country and employees a great number of people.  As is similar with other businesses of their kind, there are many ...

  ADO.Net Entity Framework What is it? Microsoft definition: The ADO.NET Entity Framework is designed to enable developers to create data access applications by programming against a conceptual application model instead of programming directly against a relational storage schema. The goal is to decrease the amount of code and maintenance ...

After all of the success of the first round of Boston XAMLFest (12/11 and 12/12), Microsoft decided to host a second set of days this week (12/15 and 12/16).  XAMLFest was a quick but detailed look into WPF and SilverLight; with minimal marketing slides and a lot of hands-on coding and walk-throughs.  The time was split up between Visual ...

In A Simple Custom Sql Membership Provider Part 1, I talked about how to create a new Sql Membership Provider in order to modify the behavior of the default provider, without having to write your own provider from scratch.  In this part, I'll show you how to further extend the provider to give the appearance of case-insensitivity for ...

The benefits of using Microsoft's new Membership Provider, and an explanation of how to configure and use them, are well documented on MSDN (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yh26yfzy(VS.80).aspx).  Certainly the Sql Membership Provider, in conjunction with the suite .Net controls, does a great job ...