Turns out that svcutils does not report all the errors when running in visual studio. Some of the errors are reported (perhaps by the gui surrounding it), but not all. This makes it confusing when the tool fails for some reason.

Dijkstra wrote the following. I agree with his reasoning. However, goto is useful in certain lower level domains. The difficulty of reading code with goto statements is that it’s hard to follow the program flow. The reasoning can also be applied to programming where you do not use goto. Consider the following code: someMethod(){ // some state label 1: doStuff(); goto end; label 2: if (condition){ goto 1; }else{ doOtherStuff(); goto end; } label 3: doSom[...]

Dijkstra wrote the following. I agree with his reasoning. However, goto is useful in certain lower level domains. The difficulty of reading code with goto statements is that it’s hard to follow the program flow. The reasoning can also be applied to programming where you do not use goto. Consider the following code: someMethod(){ // some state label 1: doStuff(); goto end; label 2: if (condition){ goto 1; }else{ doOtherStuff(); goto end; } label 3: doSom[...]

Dijkstra wrote the following. I agree with his reasoning. However, goto is useful in certain lower level domains. The difficulty of reading code with goto statements is that it’s hard to follow the program flow. The reasoning can also be applied to programming where you do not use goto. Consider the following code: someMethod(){ // some state label 1: doStuff(); goto end; label 2: if (condition){ goto 1; }else{ doOtherStuff(); goto end; } label 3: doSom[...]

When I first started using entity framework (one of the earlier versions) it was not ready yet (some serious performance issues). A few years later I hear good things about it from other developers. In order to try to get a feel for how the state of entity persistance is today I’ve ported an old nhibernate test project to a test project for entity framework. I initially had some trouble due to my choice of sql express to test the mappings. Once I managed to get EF to use sqlite the testing got much easi[...]