OK. So I just read this post on Julie Lerman's blog, and my reaction is "me too, me too." What I mean to say is that I'd sure like to hear what things are causing people to dislike the EF or be afraid of it or whatever, because I'm in a position to...

I highly recommend checking out Astoria. Pablo Castro, a major driving force behind Astoria, was on Dot Net Rocks recently, and the show provides a great introduction to Astoria. Of course, you might also want to take a look at the Astoria Team Blog ...

Update October 21, 2009: The EF has progressed quite a bit since this original post, but the need for this capability still comes up.  Recently someone asked me how to do this kind of thing, and when I pointed them at this post, they had some trouble...

So, I've been thinking lately about serializing/remoting object graphs. The entity framework currently serializes an entire object graph when binary serialization is used but only serializes one entity at a time in XML/DataContract scenarios. I'm working...

This week on the ADO.Net pre-release forum, someone brought up an interesting relationship mapping scenario in this thread . Essentially the scenario is this: They have a table which represents an entity, call it Foo, and along with the other columns...

One of the PMs on the team, Asad Khan, sent me a list of questions and answers which he culled from looking through a whole bunch of forum postings and blogs, and the content seemed like such a useful resource that I've been hacking on it for several...

I can't take credit for the description of how to do this, but a very useful example was recently posted to the forum, and I wanted to make sure more people saw this/it is easy to find in the future. Also, Julie Lerman was mentioning to me today that...

In case any of you are attending Dev Connections in Las Vegas this week, I'm planning on being there and would love to meet with you. Since I signed up too late to do an actual session, the powers that be have been kind enough to give me lots of time...