Month: October 2014

It’s critical this is done first. Web deploy may not install correctly if it’s installed with the Management Service icon missing. Check IIS for the Management Delegation icon, it’ll be under the Management section.

If it’s missing run the following commands.

Windows 2012

dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-WebServerRole
dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-WebServerManagementTools
dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-ManagementService
Reg Add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WebManagement\Server /V EnableRemoteManagement /T REG_DWORD /D 1
net start wmsvc
sc config wmsvc start= auto

Run Web Deploy.

Check to see if the icon is there. If it’s not, run web deploy again. It should be there.

One of the weaknesses of Entity Framework 6 Code First is the lack of support for natively calling database constructs (views, stored procedures… etc). For those who have not heard of or used Code-First in Entity Framework (EF), Code-First is simply a Fluent mapping API. The idea is to create all your database mappings in code (i.e. C#) and the framework then creates and track the changes in the database schema.

In traditional Entity Framework to call a stored procedure you’d map it in your EDMX file. This is a multi-step process. Once the process is completed a method is created, which hangs off the DataContext.

I sought to making a calling stored procedure easier. At the heart of a stored procedure you have a procedure name, N number of parameters and a results set. I’ve written a small extension method that takes a procedure name, parameters and a return type. It just works. No mapping the procedure and it’s parameters.

public static List<TReturn> CallStoredProcedure<TParameters, TReturn>(this DataContext context, string storedProcedure, TParameters parameters) where TParameters : class where TReturn : class, new()
{
IDictionary<string,object> procedureParameters = new Dictionary<string, object>();
PropertyInfo[] properties = parameters.GetType().GetProperties();

var ps = new List<object>();

foreach (var property in properties)
{
object value = property.GetValue(parameters);
string name = property.Name;

procedureParameters.Add(name, value);

ps.Add(new SqlParameter(name, value));
}

var keys = procedureParameters.Select(p => string.Format("@{0}", p.Key)).ToList();
var parms = string.Join(", ", keys.ToArray());

return context.Database.SqlQuery<TReturn>(storedProcedure + " " + parms, ps.ToArray()).ToList();
}

Usage

var context = new DataContext();

List<User> users = context.CallStoredProcedure<object,User>("User_GetUserById", new{userId = 3});