Well I am heading out to Myrtle Beach tonight at 4am, so I spent today finishing up some cleanup so I could release DoddleImport on CodePlex. It should be pretty feature complete and ready for use, and as always, please let me know if it helps you out! Objective Flexible importing of data via a fluid and fully extensible API to easily add support for new Import Sources and Import Destinations. I will update the documentation and provide some better examples when I get back. Here you can see a quick example of me importing some...

A couple months ago I wrote a basic set of extension methods to handle automatic auditing in LINQ to SQL. Well I have received a large number of emails regarding this particular project so I have decided to focus on cleaning up my v2 API and releasing it on CodePlex. There was a lot of room for improvement from version 1 and today I am going to post the all new LINQ Audit Trail code. This new version is significantly enhanced in the previous version. Objective Automatic auditing of all inserts/updates/deletes for any table in your database with...

UPDATE: This post is outdated and has significantly enhanced with a new version. Please see LINQ Audit Trail V2  In a project I am currently working on, we had a fairly common requirement of recording an Audit Trail of any data changes. The requirements were typical, provide a running log of any changes in the database, including: What table was modified? What fields changed? Who made the change? When did it occur? Naturally, there are many ways to tackle this...