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Friday, November 20, 2009 9:37 AM

T4 Templates and the answer to life, the universe and everything

[This is the third in a series of posts on getting started with the new features in Entity Framework 4 based on the demos I did in my session at TechEd Europe in Berlin last week (Nov 2009).] Entity Framework 4 relies significantly on the Text Template
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Friday, November 20, 2009 9:18 AM

Tangible T4 Editor – a life saver

I have been working with T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) lately thanks to the Entity Framework team moving their code generation model over to T4 in Visual Studio 2010. However by default Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 do not include syntax highlighting
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Friday, November 20, 2009 7:39 AM

Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 - Templated Code Generation

[This is the second in a series of posts on getting started with the new features in Entity Framework 4 based on the demos I did in my session at TechEd Europe in Berlin last week (Nov 2009).] Code generation from the Entity Data Model (EDM) has changed
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:45 AM

SQL Azure slides and links from EdgeUG session

A big thanks to all those who attended last night to hear about SQL Azure and SQL Server 2008 R2. I really enjoyed it and once again “Merry Christmas”! Links http://bit.ly/startazure   takes you to the getting started page for SQL Azure (and Windows
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:56 PM

Using SQL Server Management Studio R2 with SQL Azure

As I mentioned earlier this week , we now have a CTP release of a version of SSMS that is SQL Azure aware. I thought it might be useful to share my first few minutes with it. First up, I cleared out my SQL Azure account using the portal (dropped all my
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:38 PM

Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 – Simple Model First Example

This is the first in a series of posts on getting started with the new features in Entity Framework 4 based on the demos I did in my session at TechEd Europe in Berlin last week (Nov 2009). When adding an Entity Data Model to a project you are given the
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Friday, November 13, 2009 11:54 AM

TechEd Europe 2009 Highlights and Lowlights

It is Friday 13th Nov 2009 - which means it is the last day of TechEd Europe in Berlin. Overall I have had a good week – high quality sessions, lots of time with customers and colleagues and a very smooth conference throughout. I spent the week doing
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 6:44 PM

Pictures of TechEd Europe 2009 – brussel sprouts for the win!

Some pictures from the awesome TechEd Europe. My favourite – “Xmas Lunch” on the Thursday: The rather large entrance   The Berlin wall (outside a restaurant!) The amazing hands on lab area: A typical session (AJAX in this case): The expo: The community
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:32 PM

SQL Server Management Studio now supports SQL Azure

I have had a bit of a “SQL Azure” day at TechEd Europe. I sat through David Robinsons excellent intro to SQL Azure development (smooth, on time, great Q&A), caught up with David afterwards to exchange stories on SQL Azure and find out what I will
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:08 PM

Entity Framework 4 at TechEd Europe – standing room only

On Monday at 9am (9th Nov 2009) I presented a session on Entity Framework 4 to several hundred attendees at TechEd in Berlin ( DEV305 ). I have presented EF to developers many times before but this was the first time I had shown the new EF 4 in any detail.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:44 AM

Did you know Microsoft makes a mocking tool? Meet the latest version of Pex

No? Nor me. (If you are wondering what Mocking is, check out my previous post on Mocking, Stubs and Test Doubles .) I am at TechEd Europe this week in Berlin, speaking on Entity Framework 4.0 and manning the .NET Framework stand. Behind the .NET Framework
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:32 AM

UK MSDN Flash Poll for November 18th: Do you think you will develop solutions for SharePoint 2010?

SharePoint development has always been a little bit “lumpy” but Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 plan to make thing much easier – yet offer more control and power. There are some great resources popping up to help you get started such as: Get Started
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Friday, November 06, 2009 4:38 PM

Summary of the Entity Framework 4 changes introduced with Beta 2 and CTP 2

I thought it would be useful (at least to me!) to summarise the new stuff in Entity Framework 4 given it actually comes in 2 parts . The list is a simplified and categorised version of this and this . General Foreign Keys now added: EF 4 now includes
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Friday, November 06, 2009 4:14 PM

The relationship between Entity Framework 4 betas and ctps explained

There seems to be enough confusion about the betas and ctps of Entity Framework 4 to warrant a brief post. Hopefully this should clear things up nicely. Put simply: Most of Entity Framework 4 (EF4) will ship with .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010
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Friday, November 06, 2009 3:29 PM

The Plan B is all my DEV305 Entity Framework 4 demos as slideware

Next week I will be presenting Entity Framework 4 at TechEd Europe . At least that is what I hope to do. However my Lenovo T61P seems to have some other plans. A year back the screen packed in. The nice IBM man replaced it. All was well. Last week the
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Friday, November 06, 2009 3:25 PM

Entity Framework 4 Session DEV305 at TechEd Europe 2009 – what to expect

Next Monday (9th Nov 2009) at 9am I will be delivering an overview of the new stuff in Entity Framework 4 at TechEd Europe .  The session is DEV305 and the description reads: ADO.NET Entity Framework in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft
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