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InvocationExpression and LINQ to Entities

I talked a little bit about patterns using InvocationExpression in a previous post (you might want to review the post for some context). It turns out my advice wasn’t that easy to implement… Fortunately, the EFExtensions helper library now includes an

Stored Procedures and First-Class Relationships in the Entity Framework

A user of the EFExtensions library asked me how to retrieve a set of ‘categories’ and their related ‘products’ through a single stored procedure call. I made some changes to the sample application to illustrate this pattern, but I thought I should also

EFExtensions update

The EFExtensions helper library has a few updates: - CreateCommand now respects the CommandTimeout property on ObjectContext . A user of the library reported this bug to me a while ago, and I’m finally getting around to fixing it. - One tricky scenario