Entity Framework
The ADO.Net vNext Entity Framework.
Another D3 release is up. This time I continued my focus on fundamentals. Some of this is tedious, but as I establish solid mechanics I’m starting to gain some momentum. The theme for today is using every last asset at your disposal
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The second D3 release is now up at: d3-0.0026.zip It’s the fruit of my labors pretty much full-time this week because it has been “App Week” on the EF team this week. What a great time! My kids got out of school for summer break last Friday (which means
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OK folks, after way too much delay, I’ve finally gotten all my ducks in a row and begun the process of rewriting DPMud. Since my goal is to completely rebuild it from scratch, the process is going to take a while, and I intend to let you all look
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Here are a few more resources I hope you will find useful: Recently I had a conversation about EF4 with Carl and Richard of .Net Rocks, and it went up on their site today. Have a listen at http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=451 .
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One of the things that’s cool about working on the EF team and getting the chance to talk to customers about what we do and answer questions and such is that I get to hear about lots of things that folks outside the EF team do with the EF. It’s
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In case you haven’t heard yet, VS 2010 beta 1 and .Net 4 beta 1 are now available for public download, and that means EF4 beta 1 is available as well: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx Lots of goodies! Check it out, and let us
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Yesterday, while we were here at TechEd, Alex James and I sat down and recorded a short discussion about POCO and other features coming EF4. Check it out at: http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=ef76e96c-7471-44a6-aa88-1ada037471ca - Dann
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This week I gave a talk at TechEd focusing on architectural considerations as well as some useful tips for creating n-tier applications with the Entity Framework v3.5SP1. The code from the simple sample application is now available at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dtl401sample/
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I’m off at TechEd this week talking to customers about the EF—especially about ways to be successful using the EF right now with 3.5sp1. Meanwhile, though, we’re getting close to releasing the first beta of EF4 (yeah!). As we gear up for that
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I’m off to TechEd North America in LA next week where I’ll be presenting a 400-level session titled “Applied Entity Framework”. The session will mostly be focused on helping folks be more successful using EF3.5sp1 but also with some info about features
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Today I was looking at a post in the forums where someone asked a very natural and common question about the EF that I end up answering pretty frequently. So I decided to put my answer here on my blog to make it easier to refer back to the answer
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Sorry for the DPMud hiatus. Here’s another installment for those interested in the process. I’m still trying to get a public source repository up. Until that’s functional I’m not going to do a lot of development because I want to share the process with
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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
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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 the D3
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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 the
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