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August 25, 2009

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:16 AM/EST

What I've been up to with Entity Framework lately

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...

July 22, 2009

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:50 AM/EST

Life without EF or any ORM?

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...

June 20, 2009

Saturday, June 20, 2009 2:54 PM/EST

Fantastic on-going Entity Frameworks Tips Series from EF’s Alex James

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...

June 10, 2009

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:27 AM/EST

Visual Studio's Database Publishing Wizard and the new 1-Click Web Deployment

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....

June 2, 2009

Tuesday, June 02, 2009 11:48 AM/EST

LINQ to SQL in VS2010/.NET 4

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...

May 9, 2009

Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:09 PM/EST

Entity Framework - Change Track & Update Entities based on Views

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...

April 29, 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:07 PM/EST

Getting at the LINQ Any Method in Astoria

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...

April 14, 2009

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1:59 PM/EST

ASP.NET Dynamic Data WebSites

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...

January 27, 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:10 AM/EST

Digital Version of Programming Entity Framework is Live!

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...

January 19, 2009

Monday, January 19, 2009 5:46 PM/EST

SQLServerVideos.com: A Great Resource for Devs who work with SQL Server

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...

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