July 2008 - Posts

Update Model – a Question of Identity – Part 2 of 3
22 July 08 09:23 AM | dpblogs | 7 Comments   

This article is Part 2 of 3 – please see http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/07/21/update-model-a-question-of-identity-part-1-of-3.aspx for Part 1. In the last article I explained the principle that the C-side updates would be non-destructive. The Read More...

Filed under: ADO.NET, Entity Framework, EDM

Update Model – a Question of Identity – Part 1 of 3
21 July 08 11:01 AM | dpblogs | 6 Comments   

I propose to explain the reason behind some of the oddities of the “Update Model from Database” functionality and hopefully answer some common questions that come up about it. Before I get started let me note that this will be a fairly technical post Read More...

Filed under: ADO.NET, Entity Framework, EDM

EDM Tools | Options (Part 4 of 4)
14 July 08 10:16 AM | dpblogs | 2 Comments   

Introduction In parts one , two and three of this four-part series, we discussed the file differences between EDMX & csdl, ssdl & msl files, we looked at the model & code generation APIs available in the .Net Runtime, and we looked at the Read More...