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Diego Vega

Entity Framework news and sporadic epiphanies

May 2008 - Posts

EntityDataSource's flattening of complex type properties
I explained a few days ago the rules of wrapping in this blog post . But why do we wrap after all? Julie asked for some details today in the forums. I think the answer is worth of a blog post. In ASP.NET there are different ways of specifying which property Read More...
Entity Framework Extensions Project Update
Just a couple of links: Colin posted a refresh today today that is compatible with .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta and includes some optimizations for the materializer using dynamic methods. Here is his post about it. Read More...
EntityDataSource: To wrap or not to wrap
Note: Somehow the <TEntity> generic argument had disappeared from the extension method definition. I am fixing it today after several months. Sorry for the inconvenience! Fresh from the forums today: A customer asks how to get the real entity object Read More...
New EntityDataSource Control for ASP.NET
As it was announced today , the EntityDataSource is now part of Entity Framework, and a first beta version of it is available in .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1 and Visual Studio SP1 Beta 1 . I have meant to answer Julie's post " Thinking about the EntityDataSource Read More...
Lazy loading in Entity Framework
Recently, I wrote this little article that got published in the new Insights sidebar in MSDN Magazine. In it, I mention one of the fundamental tenets of ADO.NET:  *Network roundtrips should not be hidden from the developer* But guess what... It is Read More...
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