Untitled-10 1 6/6/12 11:32 AM THE MICROSOFT JOURNAL FOR DEVELOPERS AUGUST 2012 VOL 27 NO 8 Functional-Style Programming in C++ COLUMNS David Cravey ........................................................................... 30 CUTTING EDGE Mobile Site Development, Part 3: Windows Azure Comes to the Rescue Routing Requests Mark Kromer ........................................................................... 38 Dino Esposito, page 6 Build User-Friendly XML Interfaces WINDOWS WITH C++ Lightweight Cooperative with Windows PowerShell Multitasking with C++ Joe Leibowitz ........................................................................... 50 Kenny Kerr, page 10 DATA POINTS A History (API) Lesson Pitfalls and Pointers for a Base Clark Sell ................................................................................. 56 Logging Class in EF Models Julie Lerman, page 16 Using the Team Foundation Server FORECAST: CLOUDY Client Object Model Decoupling the Cloud with MEF Brian Blackman and Willy-Peter Schaub ..................................... 60 Joseph Fultz and Chris Mabry, page 22 CyberNanny: Remote Access via THE WORKING Distributed Components PROGRAMMER Angel Hernandez Matos ........................................................... 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Printed in the USA Untitled-2 1 7/2/12 10:49 AM EDITOR’S NOTE MICHAEL DESMOND On Point with Julie Lerman In the world of soft ware development, nothing is certain except partial solution. Th e addition of POCO [Plain Old CLR Object] death, taxes and data. As MSDN Magazine Data Points columnist support in EF4 was a huge leap forward, and then Code First plus Julie Lerman points out: “Nobody can avoid data, so it’s a topic the much-simpler-to-use API [DbContext] changed the broader that’s important to everyone.” perception of EF dramatically. It wasn’t until those last two pieces Which is why Data Points has been a fi xture inMSDN Magazine arrived that people at Microsoft who are outside of the data team since John Papa fi rst penned the column back in 2002. Papa launched started paying attention to it. And the developers’ eyes, enthusi- the column to address what he felt was a shortage of data-related asm and excitement followed. coverage in the magazine (and the industry in general). When It’s also been fascinating to witness the evolution of how the he stepped away from the column in 2009 aft er taking a job with EF team at Microsoft works. Aft er some challenging interactions Microsoft , Papa recommended Julie Lerman to take his spot. with a voluble community that was unhappy with the initial I asked Lerman about her experience writing the column and release, they responded with some fantastic changes that made EF about her thoughts on data and development. As Lerman told me, palatable to a much wider audience. Now the entire team is focused inspiration is not hard to fi nd. on responding to community feedback. “I’ve tried to use the column to explain things that either I’m I get the feeling that the .NET dev community—the subset that curious or confused about, such as what the heck NoSQL is,” she engages with new releases and providing feedback—has a great says. “Or as a way to share answers to questions that I’m asked sense of ownership of EF and is now very supportive of the work frequently—for example, about Entity Framework [EF].” the team is doing. Michael Desmond: Th e .NET data space has been anything How do you find time to write consistently given the but boring, with plenty of infrastructure work pulling devel- demands of your day job? How does writing help you opers in diff erent directions. Have things settled down? Any improve as a developer? advice for developers trying to make big-picture decisions You know better than anyone that my articles are rarely delivered about data in 2012? on time. I just steal the time from other tasks and deadlines, so I’m Julie Lerman: Settled? Ha! I think they’re moving faster. I do think constantly juggling. I also have to steal some of that time from my the ORMs [object-relational mappers] are going to settle in as the personal life. I think the fact that my husband and I don’t have kids “classics” for a while, and Entity Framework seems to have become makes that a bit easier. the standard for out-of-the-box .NET data access. Th e process of writing does indeed have a positive eff ect on my Th ere’s so much innovative work and thinking going on, especially development skills. I’m reluctant to write something down until with the focus on big data, NoSQL and CQRS [Command Query I’ve explored it inside and out, which forces me to learn even more Responsibility Segregation], to name a few. But not everyone has to deeply something I may already have a great deal of comfort with. work with the vast amounts of data that comes under that umbrella. I think we have a great responsibility not to misdirect people who I really do think ORM over relational database is the new norm. depend on us for their knowledge. I’m constantly questioning what I know and how I do things, and I sometimes very reluctantly How well has EF come together over its brief, if turbulent, drag myself through some process of evolution.