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Entity Framework mapping scenarios

One thing I like to get across when I talk about the ADO.NET Entity Framework is that in V1 the Designer does not support all the capabilities of the underlying Entity Data Model (EDM) – and hence you will sometimes need to “roll up your sleeves” and Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 8:36 PM by ericnel | 1 Comments

Q&A: How to return multiple result sets from a stored procedure using LINQ

This one has come up for both LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities. The scenario is a reasonably common one. How to handle something like this: CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[ReturnMultipleRS] AS select * from customers select * from products .csharpcode, .csharpcode Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 7:15 PM by ericnel | 1 Comments

Q&A: Deciding between LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities

I keep getting asked this one. I have my own way of answering which ultimately ends up with “LINQ to Entities is the right choice for majority of scenarios, just expect a little pain”. In slightly more detail: If you only care about SQL Server AND you Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 12:13 AM by ericnel | 1 Comments

Entity Framework and Data Services in one slide – a work in progress

I wanted a high level diagram which allowed me to talk about how the technologies worked together, worked apart, cover off areas such as multiple SSDLs, multiple EDMs etc. Very much work in progress and the build helps – but comments welcome and appreciated Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:44 PM by ericnel | 4 Comments

ADO.NET Entity Framework and large databases – fine with 400 tables/views?

I keep talking about Entity Framework and I keep getting asked about large databases. I have a stock answer based on work by an early adopter and some other stuff – but I kept meaning to try this out myself. I was about to give it a whirl when I decided Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:35 PM by ericnel | 1 Comments

Links for QBS Event Wed 24th September

Apologies to those who attended last week. I did promise to put up a blog post with all my links. Hopefully you got most of them from my previous blogs on a similar event we held on the 17th and from a related session I did a ReMix UK. The missing link Read More...
Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 3:24 PM by ericnel | 1 Comments

Links for Remix session on Entity Framework, 19th Sept

All of the links I showed are included in a session I did last week for QBS except the following: Dynamic Data Entity Framework Workaround – this allows ADO.NET Entity Framework to better work with ASP.NET Dynamic Data ADO.NET Entity Framework Extensions Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:28 AM by ericnel | 3 Comments

Links for QBS Event Wed 17th Sept

As promised, the links from my session today on the new data stuff on 3.5 and 3.5 SP1. Thanks for listening. General ADO.NET Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet Mike in our team http://www.miketaulty.com ( search Entity or LINQ ) Data Platform Developer Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:00 PM by ericnel | 3 Comments

RemixUK next week – I have a session on ASP.NET and the Entity Framework

Mike who owns the dev track at Remix has unfortunately lost a speaker and I have offered to help – and to my surprise he said yes. The slight challenge being that I am very light on Silverlight and whilst I was once quite heavily into ASP.NET (back in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:08 PM by ericnel | 2 Comments

Leeds Events in Nov and Dec – SQL Server Data Services, Entity Framework and more

Just had confirmation that we have added two more MSDN half day events for November and December. Hope to see you there. Nov 19th http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032387211&Culture=en-GB   Dec 3rd http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032387846&Culture=en-GB Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 12:03 AM by ericnel | 1 Comments

LINQ Overview concept map #2

Just started the day with a swift play with my original concept map . Read More...
Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 9:29 AM by ericnel | 4 Comments

Entity Framework v2.0 development underway (and very open!)

The ADO.NET Entity Framework is very strategic to Microsoft - but a) it is a V1.0 technology (although we have been dabbling for some time - remember ObjectSpaces in 2004) and b) it hasn't actually shipped yet. BUT... the good news is V1.0 is pretty much Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:31 PM by ericnel | 1 Comments
 
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