Reading manifest from assembly

Information like product name, file version, copyright, etc are stored in the assembly manifest. In this post I would like to present how these informations can be read from an assembly and showed in the UI.

By Mirek on (tags: assembly information, manifest, categories: code)

EF Code First and SqlServer Ce 4.0 – the simplest example ever.

Recently I needed to write a simple database application. I chose the Entity Framework Code First (Code Only) as a Object Relational Mapper (ORM) because its simplicity and quick development process. If you did not yet heard about EF Code First then this is a good place to start. Entity framework is a very powerful technology. It totally makes the whole dirty work which in the …

By Mirek on (tags: Code First, Entity Framework, SqlServer Ce 4.0, categories: code)

Forms authentication for all

Earlier I wrote about the problems of a common authentication approach. Today, I’m going to do a quick demonstration how to set up forms authentication to secure a web app with an oData service and how to use forms authentication to connect to the service from a wpf client.

By eidias on (tags: authentication, categories: code)