OpenNETCF ORM: Dynamic Entities
There’s no doubt in my mind that code libraries and frameworks are fantastic for saving time and work, after all I want to spend time solving my business problem, not writing infrastructure. Nowhere...
View ArticleOpenNETCF ORM Implementation Update
I’m been maintaining and expanding the OpenNETCF ORM code base for quite some time now and it’s becoming pretty robust. We dogfood it heavily and have a variety of application installs using it for...
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Stop Using “The Cloud”
We’ve all been in a meeting, conference or seminar where the talk goes something along these lines: “We collect the data at the device, then we send it up to The Cloud where we can do analysis and...
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New ORM Implementation: Dream Factory
As the chief architect for the Solution Family, I’m always s looking for new places to store M2M data. I like to investigate anything that might make sense for either ourselves or our customers. A...
View ArticleSending M2M data to The Cloud
If you’re doing M2M work, it’s a pretty good bet that at some point you’ll need to send data off of a device for storage somewhere else (it better not be all of the data you have, though!). Maybe it’s...
View ArticleStoring Cloud Data Over Transient Connections
An interesting challenge in many M2M scenarios is that your network connection is often far from good. If you’re trying to collect Engine data from an over-the-road truck going 80 miles an hour across...
View ArticleLots of ORM Updates
We use the OpenNETCF ORM in the Solution Family products. Unfortunately I haven’t figured out a good way to keep the code base for the ORM stuff we use in Solution Family in sync with the public code...
View ArticleNew ORM Release: v1.0.14007
I’ve finally gotten around to wrapping up all of the changes I’ve made in the last year (has it really been that long since the last release?) to the OpenNETCF ORM library. The changes have always...
View ArticleOpenNETCF ORM Updates: Dream Factory and Azure Tables
We’ve been busy lately. Very, very busy with lots of IoT work. A significant amount of that work has been using the Dream Factory DSP for cloud storage, and as such we’ve done a lot of work to make...
View ArticleRow filtering in the ORM
For a while now we’ve had an unwanted behavior in our Solution Engine product. The larger the on-device database got, the longer the app took to load. To the point that some devices in the field were...
View ArticleORM Updates
Generally speaking, the OpenNETCF ORM library gets worked on offline. We use it extensively in our Solution Engine product and so the “working” copy of the code resides on a separate source tree. The...
View ArticleAnother ORM Update
One of the laws of software development is “A better way of finding bugs than testing is to release” and sure enough, that happened. I rolled a release of the ORM yesterday, and no sooner than I did,...
View ArticleORM Migration to Github
With the announced mothballing of Codeplex, I’m working to migrate at least some of the open source projects I have to Github. It turns out I own 29 projects over on Codeplex. Some of them, like the...
View ArticleNew Open Source Projects
I’m working on a new application that’s going to be open source. Once it’s a bit further along I’ll provide more details, but essentially it’s a paperless forms solution that encompasses a WPF desktop...
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