Diego Vega
Entity Framework news and sporadic epiphanies
This week we announced the availability of EF6 alpha 2 (read the announcement post in our blog and...
Date: 12/12/2012
UPDATE: Andres Aguiar has published some additional tips on his blog that you may also find helpful...
Date: 03/31/2012
UPDATE: After I posted this article we found that the plan we had to enable the pattern with...
Date: 01/25/2012
This post touches on some history and on how different rationales have driven versioning of the...
Date: 01/14/2012
The DbContext API introduced in Entity Framework 4.1 exposes a few methods that provide pass-through...
Date: 01/09/2012
Some customers using the Self-Tracking Entities template we included in Visual Studio 2010 have ran...
Date: 10/05/2010
Wrapped System.IO.FileNotFoundException with Entity Framework POCO and Self-Tracking Entities T4 Templates
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 were released on Monday! The Self-Tracking Entities template is...
Date: 04/14/2010
It has been some time since the last time my team posted anything to the Entity Framework Design...
Date: 03/10/2010
With Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 very close to RTM, many of us in the team are spending more and...
Date: 02/11/2010
Just a quick note on this: Our team is hiring! If you think you have the skills and the will to...
Date: 02/04/2010
We have just released a new version of the Feature CTP that works on top of Visual Studio 2010 Beta...
Date: 11/04/2009
A customer recently asked if there is still any advantage in using the entities that Entity...
Date: 09/07/2009
Update: with the new version of the POCO template available in Visual Studio Gallery (see here for...
Date: 07/26/2009
I haven’t met Beth in person but I noticed her awesome blog posts and videos focused on using Entity...
Date: 07/20/2009
I don’t post much on my blog lately (too busy working on Entity Framework for .NET 4!), but this...
Date: 07/07/2009
It is always busy here with all the improvements we are doing in Entity Framework to make your code...
Date: 06/10/2009
I answered a Connect issue today that deals with a very common expectation for users of systems like...
Date: 02/24/2009
This post is about a small issue that I have seen in the forums and that arises often in cases in...
Date: 02/02/2009
Alex published today a description Colin and I wrote on a new feature the team has been working on...
Date: 10/08/2008
One of our customers asked this question yesterday on the Entity Framework forums. There were a few...
Date: 10/08/2008
I have been back from vacation for some time but I haven't had time to post anything (i.e. I was on...
Date: 09/09/2008
This new sample builds on top of System.Data.OracleClient and showcases some techniques a provider...
Date: 06/23/2008
Just to get the news out: The updated version of the Entity Framework Sample Provider that is...
Date: 06/03/2008
I explained a few days ago the rules of wrapping in this blog post. But why do we wrap after all?...
Date: 05/24/2008
Just a couple of links: Colin posted a refresh today today that is compatible with .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta...
Date: 05/13/2008
Note: Somehow the <TEntity> generic argument had disappeared from the extension method...
Date: 05/13/2008
As it was announced today, the EntityDataSource is now part of Entity Framework, and a first beta...
Date: 05/13/2008
Recently, I wrote this little article that got published in the new Insights sidebar in MSDN...
Date: 05/12/2008
Just a short note about this: You can find his article here. I had the chance to see his...
Date: 04/26/2008
When I announced the start of the Entity Framework Toolkits & Extensions section in CodeGallery,...
Date: 03/27/2008
Samir, a developer in the Data Programmability Team started blogging today. He also published a...
Date: 03/14/2008
Danny and I appear to be giving inconsistent advice on this regard in our recent weekend posts:...
Date: 03/03/2008
Technorati Tags: Entity Framework,TDD One interesting question customers that are TDD practitioners...
Date: 03/02/2008
I got the news today that Ruurd Boeke, a member of the developer community, has created an Entity...
Date: 02/19/2008
Today we went live with something very dear to me: The Entity Framework Toolkits & Extensions....
Date: 01/25/2008
John Papa asks in my comments about some differences among the two query languages. Let's start from...
Date: 12/20/2007
Today we made a huge step towards RTM. I know this is no news anymore, but well, it has been one of...
Date: 12/07/2007
Zlatko has been posting about one LINQ to Entities new feature included in the upcoming Beta 3, so I...
Date: 11/27/2007
Last month, a question was asked in the ADO.NET Prerelease forum that went more or less like this:...
Date: 11/11/2007
One of the best learning resources I have found since I joined my team at Microsoft is this page...
Date: 11/09/2007
Something you need to learn as a Program Manager at Microsoft is how to scale. This mean that you...
Date: 11/09/2007
I was in the kitchen close to my office having a coffee and mulling about what great thing I could...
Date: 11/05/2007
My name is Diego Vega and I am a new Program Manager in the Data Programmability team. This is my...
Date: 10/23/2007