Sql Server application roles with Entity Framework Code First Migrations

A time ago I have been writing about the Sql Server application roles, what are the benefits of using them and what are the limitations when we want to incorporate the Entity Framework to use application role. Today I will show you how to workaround those limitations with new Entity Framework facility introduced in version 6 of the framework.

By Mirek on (tags: Application Role, Entity Framework, SQL Server, categories: architecture, code)

WiX based Installer– Boilerplate

WiX Toolset is a technology to create Windows installers for your software. It is open source and free for use, but as many of free things is not super user friendly. The creation of the installer is XML based. In this post I will try to present a kind of boilerplate template which you can use to quickly create most of the need installer.

By Mirek on (tags: Installer, WiX, categories: tools)