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There are a number of places where you can read an introduction to the Entity Framework, listen to a podcast about it, or watch a screen cast or video of an interview. Even with these various resources, though, there are so many different data access
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Just a quick note to point out a few interesting things about the updated version of the EF which shipped this week with the beta of VS 2008 / .Net 3.5 SP1: The initial announcement didn't include links to updated versions of the documentation or our
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There's a lot going on today! Not only has VS 2008 SP1 Beta been released (with the EF fully integrated into setup and including a number of new features and bug fixes), but also Jarek Kowalski, who is a really smart colleague on the EF team, put up the
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OK. So this one was new on me. Thanks to my colleague down the hall, Alazel Acheson, (being able to say that, by the way, has got to be one of the coolest things about working at Microsoft -- it's great to be surrounded by very smart people) I was able
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It has been a long time in coming (especially for those of you who have installed VS 2008 RTM and then been frustrated about the inability of beta 2 to work with it), but beta 3 of the Entity Framework and CTP 2 of the EF Designer are finally available!
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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
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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,
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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
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Entity Framework FAQ Version 1.2 – 12/18/2008 New in this version of the FAQ… · Updated: 1.2. Where else should I go to learn more about the EF? · Updated: 1.6. Where can I learn about plans for the next release of the EF? · Added: 4.2. Is there any way
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There was an interesting discussion on the LINQ Project General forum today (scroll down toward the end where we start talking about what the EF can and cannot do), and there were a couple of key points I wanted to capture since we've had so many discussions
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I've been thinking for a while about a series of blog posts I'd like to write explaining various Entity Framework concepts, particularly those related directly to writing code using the framework--by that I mean that I will concentrate more on using the
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Sorry for the dearth of blog posting folks, but now that the August CTP is out, it seems like I really ought to provide some more info on the features added in this CTP. First, I'll point you to the official announcement which contains links to the download
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Hey folks, It has been longer in arriving than I would have liked, but the June CTP of the Entity Framework is finally out. This includes a HUGE set of changes. I can't tell you how many times lately I've responded to a question on the forum or something
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Yesterday there was a post on the ADO.Net Orcas forum asking if it is possible to map two entities to a single row in a single table using the entity framework. The motivation/scenario behind this request was an entity which had an address as part of
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Let me apologize up front for how long it has taken me to get back to this topic . What I can say, though, is that in the intervening interval I have devoted real time to studying agile design principles and domain driven design. Initially I thought that
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