During my time working, I find that developers can get lazy and start using the COPY and PASTE commands to a degree that can make code unmanageable.
There are many things we can do to reduce, if not eliminate, the code management nightmare, however, the one way I will focus on is using extension methods.
The cool thing with LINQ and Entity framework is that if you pass an expression through to you context, it creates an SQL Query based of that expression to fetch the data you need, instead of fetching loads of data down and having to sift through them in C#.
A recurring issue that plagued me was that if I needed to pass through a slightly different LINQ expressions based on certain conditions it looked like I was repeating code, and I don’t like repeating code.
after a few hours of playing around with different techniques I devised a little way to append to an expression.
Read more “LINQ Expression – how to append to an expression at a later stage”
Please note this is an expansion to the article on HOW TO ALLOW A USER WITH AN SQL LOGIN TO MANAGE SQL SERVER AGENT.
The entire source code, with comments, for this tutorial can be downloaded here.
in the mentioned article we learnt how to set up an SQL user to manage SQL Jobs, in this article we are going to learn how to manage jobs through a C# application,
and we will be using the SQL user created in the mentioned article to connect to the database and actually mange the SQL Server Agent jobs.
Please NOTE: SQL Server 2008 R2 or later must be installed on your development machine.
What tools am I using ?
Read more “How to manage SQL Server Agent jobs through Csharp”