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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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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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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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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:58 PM

Visual Studio Myths – busted wide open

The team and I were having a conversation about developers (we do that from time to time). It went something like: “Isn’t it a shame that so many developers are stuck on Visual Studio 2005 when Visual Studio 2008 would be way better for them and Visual
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Monday, October 19, 2009 6:15 PM

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 now available – and launch date is set for March 22nd 2010

I am not the biggest fan of Mondays but today is different. Today is a good day. Today we announced the availability of Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and revealed the official launch date: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will launch on March 22nd
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Monday, May 18, 2009 6:57 PM

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 download available and MSDN Library is online

Monday 18th 2009 will be remembered as the day I successfully took on a rootkit virus on the main TV (MCE 2005) and won AND when I (and lots of other MSDN Subscribers) got their hands on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. It is available for download now to subscribers.
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Monday, January 05, 2009 10:11 AM

MSDN Flash Poll: What has been your experience with UML?

Visual Studio 2010 will add UML 2.1.1 based modelling tools and diagrams. Many of us have dabbled with UML over the years. For my part I have been trained in it and trained people in the pragmatic application of UML – but have only used it a handful of
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Friday, January 02, 2009 4:02 PM

My “technology themes” for 2009

I thought it would be useful to start 2009 by briefly summarising what you should expect to find on this blog over the coming months. Data : I will continue to spend time looking at what Microsoft and others are up to around working with data. You should
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Friday, January 02, 2009 3:29 PM

Are you an ISV in the UK who could benefit from a free design review with Microsoft?

You may recall that my previous role was working with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to help them explore and adopt the latest technologies from Microsoft. In that role I introduced something called a Technology Roadmap Review . Many years on and
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:13 PM

New technical article on Visual Studio 2010 Language Futures

I commissioned an article on language futures in Visual Studio 2010, to cover off C#, Visual Basic, DLR, F# and Parallel Programming. I think the author did a superb job on it. Well done Damon. The Future of .NET Languages At the 2008 Microsoft Professional
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