Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:16 AM/EST
Earlier this year, my book Programming Entity Framework was published by O'Reilly Media. Microsoft continues to evolve this technology and there are a lot of enhancements and additions in the version coming with VS2010 and .NET 4.0, so I continue...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:50 AM/EST
This morning I've been adding some new features to an old app that was started in .NET 1.0 then migrated to .NET 2.0 a few years ago. I use VS2008 to work with the app but it continues to target...
Saturday, June 20, 2009 2:54 PM/EST
Alex James, a program manager on the EF team, has been posting a series of EF tips that just keeps getting better and better. Most of the tips revolve around using EF today with some nods to the upcoming EF4...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:27 AM/EST
I remember seeing the database publishing wizard for the first time when it was a planned Toolkit and not even integrated with VS2008 yet. I was very excited about being able to publish my databases so easily to my web host....
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 11:48 AM/EST
For all of those who love to say "LINQ to SQL is dead", remember that LINQ to SQL is not disappearing, it just won't be getting a ton of love (e.g., new features and improvements). But it is still breathing...
Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:09 PM/EST
I get asked a lot about using views in an EDM and updating the entities that map to those views. You can definitely do this. Here's an overview of how this works along with some rules you should be prepared...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:07 PM/EST
ADO.NET Data Services (pet name: Astoria) has client APIs that you can use to easily code against data services from .NET applications. The main .NET Client Library API can be used in Winforms, Web Apps, WPF, etc. while there is...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1:59 PM/EST
I finally broke down and tried out the ASP.NET Dynamic Data recently and was pleasantly surprised. Dynamic Data sites can be automatically built from either a LINQ ot SQL model or an Entity Framework Entity Data Model. A dynamic data...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:10 AM/EST
I just went to check for new feedback on the Rough Cuts for my book and saw that the feedback is gone and the final version of the book is available. That means that the Rough Cuts readers now have...
Monday, January 19, 2009 5:46 PM/EST
Mike Campbell is a very smart guy with a great sense of humor. If you hang out on some of the ASP forums, you may know his AngryPets website or his company, OverAchiever production. He always makes me laugh but...