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Quite some time ago I wrote a blog post about the fact that EF queries execute at the database rather than locally which means that if you add an object to the context or you modify an object already attached to the context, then a query won’t be based...

In a recent blog post , Julie Lerman brought up some really important topics around parameterized queries and query injection (commonly called SQL injection) attacks. This is a topic that we in DP at Microsoft have some experience with ;-) and gave a...

Back when the Entity Framework first started coming together as a product—well before any sane person outside the product team would actually try to use it to build an end-to-end solution—we had an application building contest within the team which we...

In order to decide on the basic architecture for DPMud 3 (I’ll just call it D3 from here on out), I first needed to build an understanding of the domain, then consider the goals and synthesize a basic approach. The good news for me is that this is...

While there are a great many scenarios for “standard” associations in the EF, there are cases where an application requires something a little more sophisticated. DPMud is no different. It has two cases. Relationships with Payload A key part of...