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Another Domain Developer's view of Entity Framework and Lazy Loading

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., May 9, 2008

Like Jeremy Miller, who has Transparent Lazy Loading for Entity Framework on his Christmas Wish List, Timothy Khouri does not like the fact that Entity Framework doesn't support Lazy Loading. However...

Entity Framework's Golden Rule and its Platinum Rule

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., May 9, 2008

I have found myself explaining this in conference sessions so I thought I would write it down in my blog. Entity Framework has a Golden Rule. Though shalt not do nuttin' that the developer has not e...

Delete Stored Procs and Navigations in the Entity Data Model

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., May 7, 2008

Entity Data Models have a lot of rules. They are necessary for the integrity of the model, though if you are not familiar with depth ofEDMs and *why* these rules exist,many of the mapping rules mayse...

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 "SP1" Beta

Brad Abrams, May 6, 2008

VS2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 offer a ton of customer value from Linq to Ajax and much more.  The service pack we have been working on to round out this release adds even more new value in additi...

Microsoft revamps Download Center using Silverlight

InfoWorld: Web services, May 6, 2008

Microsoft continues to eat its own dog food to promote the adoption of its Silverlight technology....

Updating webcast recordings...

Federal Developer Weblog, May 5, 2008

I have received a few requests from folks about a bad webcast recording.  I've been told that there are some problems with the recording for: Building Workflow Services (WF+WCF) with Visual S...

Manipulate Data in the Cloud with ADO.NET

FTPOnline .NET Channel, May 1, 2008

ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code-named "Project Astoria") delivers data from relational tables and Windows Live services to Web mashups and Visual Studio 2008 projects, including ASP.NET AJAX an...

Pair doc writing

Don Smith, April 30, 2008

That's write folks! (haha) Just minutes ago I heard through the wall what I've come to recognize as "productivity in action" and I thought it might be valuable to capture and share with yo...

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Overview of the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

Federal Developer Weblog, April 30, 2008

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Sorry about the demo hiccups / going over.  As I mentioned in the beginning, I had a hard time trying to get everything I wanted to cover into 90 minutes.&#...

New Version of ESB Software Extends the Microsoft .NET Platform

Latest Articles From .NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL, April 29, 2008

Neudesic announced the release of version 2.0 of Neuron-ESB. Neuron-ESB is an Enterprise Service Bus that extends the Microsoft Platform by providing real-time messaging, integration and web service m...

Sneak Peek at the EntityDataSource Control

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., April 27, 2008

Along with a few hundred other DevConnections attendees, I got a sneak peek of the EntityDatasSource control on Monday during Danny Simmons' Entity Framework Architecture session. I think I paid m...

Rewriting a Legacy Application with Iron Speed Designer

The Code Project Latest Articles, April 26, 2008

The size and complexity of the legacy application ruled out a "big bang" approach to conversion. Instead of "conversion", we adopt a strategy of "migration"....

WEBCAST: Overview of the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

Federal Developer Weblog, April 24, 2008

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a new release that provides new functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET in 2008. This release delivers a set of new features that target: Enabli...

C# Code Completion in emacs - CSDE now has a CsdeShell

All About Interop, April 22, 2008

I've been fiddling some more with C# code completion in emacs. I wrote a csde-shell.el that is the CSDE equivalent to JDE's beanshell.el . It runs as an inferior shell in emacs. The csde code-completi...

Pay heed to what's returned by iQueryables in ADO.NET Data Services

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., April 18, 2008

I was experimenting with creating data services from IQueryables. Rather than use the canonical example of creating a set of 3 person objects on the fly and exposing them, I decided to create a servi...

Entity Framework is .... complex

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., April 16, 2008

On Friday, I did a full day workshop on Entity Framework called Entity Framework 0-60. Well, I translated it into the local measurement and renamed it 0-100 (km). One of the comments I got back from...

WPF Series: Adorners, Commands and Logical Tree

the telerik blogs, April 16, 2008

Today I'm going to tell you a WPF story. But before I start to dig deeper let me first introduce you the main characters in this post. Here they are: Adorner - adorners are simple UIElement decor...

How to optimize the ASPxMenu control

The ASPx Blog, April 15, 2008

The support team just released a great knowledge base article which shows how to optimize the ASPxMenu control. In this article, you'll learn how to reduce the render size of the ASPxMenu and impr...

Introducing the ADO.NET Entity Framework

The Moth, April 13, 2008

Occasionally people will ask me why I don't blog about some of the new data technologies. The answer is simple: my colleague MikeT (aka internally as Data Boy) owns that space. So who better to ask to...

LINQ to SQL ObjectTrackingEnabled and Deferred Loading of Related Data

Rick Strahls WebLog, April 12, 2008

Today I've been playing around with my business object implementation which acts as a wrapper around the data context. It holds a reference to the data context and all operations that occur in the bus...

FIX: Error message when applications call multiple SqlConnection.Open methods or OracleConnection.Open methods through multiple threads at the same time in the ADO.NET 2.0 applications: "IndexOutOfRangeException"

kbAlertz.com :: .NET Framework 2.0, April 11, 2008

948176 ... FIX: Error message when applications call multiple SqlConnection.Open methods or OracleConnection.Open methods through multiple threads at the same time in the ADO.NET 2.0 applications: "I...

Model first with EDM?

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., April 5, 2008

In my previous post, I managed to update a simple model from an existing database. But then I started trying to do things like build my project and ran into so many problem trying to get my simple mo...

EF UpdateModel and naming conflicts

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., April 5, 2008

When you use the UpdateModel feature of the Entity Framework design tools, the process relies on matching up existing entity names to table names, more specifically name of objects in the CSDL with n...

FIX: Error message when a "System.Data" thread tries to open a pooled connection in the .NET Framework 2.0: "Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool"

kbAlertz.com :: .NET Framework 2.0, April 4, 2008

948868 ... FIX: Error message when a "System.Data" thread tries to open a pooled connection in the .NET Framework 2.0: "Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection f...

Availability of the .NET Framework 2.0 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix rollup package for System.Data.dll and System.Data.OracleClient.dll

kbAlertz.com :: .NET Framework 2.0, April 4, 2008

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Eight Entity Framework Tutorials on DataDeveloper.NET

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., April 4, 2008

I've written a set of Entity Framework (and one which is more general for LINQ to Entities and LINQ to SQL) tutorials that are on DataDeveloper.NET Tutorials page. Most of these are beginner basics....

LINQ, Entity Framework and ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services for the Web

Latest Articles From XML JOURNAL, April 4, 2008

The new wave of Web applications are built on technologies such as AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, which enable developers to build better, richer user experiences. These technologies bring a shift in...

Read Good Books to Be a Better Developer

AspNetResources.com articles, news and updates, April 3, 2008

Oren has published a list of his recommended reading and it reminded I wanted to write a post about this for some time. At the bottom on his post, Oren points to an observation that almost none of his...

Compiled Queries in Entity Framework

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., April 2, 2008

I was fiddling with compiled queries yesterday and thought I would share what I saw as results. This is anything but laboratory benchmark testing so take it for what it's worth. I did only a very sim...

Enterprise Library 4.0 Community Technology Preview

Tom Hollanders blog, April 2, 2008

From Grigori: We are pleased to announce the release of the EntLib 4.0 March 2008 CTP and invite your feedback. This release has been adapted to work with WMI version 2.0 and version 3.5 of the .NET ...

LINQ, Entity Framework and ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services for the Web

Latest Articles From .NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL, April 1, 2008

The new wave of Web applications are built on technologies such as AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, which enable developers to build better, richer user experiences. These technologies bring a shift in...

MSDN Forum restructuring for Data Access (LINQ and Entity Framework)

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., March 31, 2008

The MSDN forumsfor data access have been restructured a little.Entity Framework& LINQ to Entities questions:The one which has always beenunder "MSDN Forums Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ADO.NET ...

Singleton in .NET

Cirrus Minor, March 31, 2008

While I personally don't like the Singleton pattern too much (it is essentially an OO mask for Global Variables, it makes it harder to unit test etc.), I still need to use them now and then. Anyway...

EF Stored procedures - one day, two posts

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., March 28, 2008

Roger Jennings wrote a dizzying (in a good way) post about stored procedures that I have not even had the chance to absorb yet but it's about creating database procedures after the fact that can be e...

Hallelujah - Entity Graphs will be XML serializable

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., March 28, 2008

In the EF forums, Danny Simmons lets an EF RTM cat out of the bag. And, this looks like it has the possibility to be bigger than just for EF. The EF team worked with the WCF team to make ENTIRE GRAP...

My TechDays 2007 sessions available in video

Fabrice's weblog, March 27, 2008

The two sessions I co-presented during the Microsoft TechDays in February (and all the other sessions) were recorded, and the videos are now available. This is all in French, but I plan on recording s...

Another Entity Framework Team member has started blogging

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., March 26, 2008

It's great to see Colin Meek finally blogging. Colin has been a wealth of information on the MSDN Forums for Entity Fraemwrok related questions. It is also COlin who posted teh Entity Framework Exten...

Taking Advantage of the Partial Class with the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Latest Articles From .NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL, March 26, 2008

So you're building your data-driven application and you've got an ADO.NET Entity Model that represents an abstraction around your database. Maybe you're even pretty savvy and you've used inheritance a...

DC Launch Follow Up

Federal Developer Weblog, March 26, 2008

Thanks to everyone who stuck around for my "Defy Occasionally-Connected Challenges With Smart Client Applications" session at the DC Launch.  The deck and demo files are available here:...

Tip for working with embedded Ent. Framework models with Beta3

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., March 25, 2008

Because of a bug in the way the schema files are created, the behavior for embedding the model into your assembly and the impact on using that assembly in other projects is a little funky. This will ...

Javascript Global Namespaces (the dreaded $ function)

Shaun Walker, March 24, 2008

The whole idea of the $ function and who "owns" that "namespace" has become quite muddy.  When I first learned of the use of $ and found that MS was adopting the same notation, I decided to d...

Tilkov on doubting REST

All About Interop, March 24, 2008

Stefan Tilkov has written an article addressing doubts about REST, it's posted on InfoQ. He delivers a top-10 list of weaknesses of REST, and then proceeds to address each one.  These are things ...

Cool New Stuff on CodePlex

Tom Hollanders blog, March 21, 2008

In the last few weeks there have been a number of interesting new projects added to CodePlex that you may want to check out. Resource Application Block Stephen Phillips has just checked in a complete ...

WEBCAST: Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET

Federal Developer Weblog, March 21, 2008

Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET makes building applications for occasionally connected environments a logical extension of building applications where you can count on a consistent netw...

IdeaBlade's DevForce Entity Framework video is onlnie

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., March 21, 2008

IdeaBlade has a 45 minute webcast demonstrating their Entity Framework implementation. They have taken EF and plugged it into their pre-existing framework which already knows how to do a lot of the th...

Five VS2008 Smart Client features

The Moth, March 20, 2008

I have created a Smart Client session that I am repeating at various events and it is basically 5 demos. If you attended that session and heard me refer to my blog for more detailed videos of the 5 th...

More on DataContext in (hopefully) a realistic world

Dino Espositos WebLog, March 19, 2008

A comment from Bigyan to my DataContext article on DotNetSlackers yesterday made me think that I probably had to put my thoughts down a little more explicitly. The question that Bigyan poses is expres...

Progress Software Acquires Data Integration Leader Xcalia

Latest Articles From XML JOURNAL, March 18, 2008

'Xcalia has one of the most mature implementations of these technologies on the market,' said John Goodson, vice president and general manager of DataDirect Technologies, as Progress Software announce...

AJAXWorld Keynote Speaker on the Risks and Rewards of RIAs

Latest Articles From XML JOURNAL, March 17, 2008

Last year, the overall demand for RIAs outpaced the qualified supply chain. This trend will continue in 2008. While last year brought unprecedented growth in RIA adoption - especially by Fortune 500 c...

ASP.NET and ADO.NET 3.5 Beta Exams

Bryant Likess Blog, March 14, 2008

Gerry just posted some information about the new ADO.NET 3.5 Exam and the new ASP.NET 3.5 Exam, but didn't post the dates or the promo codes. I just signed up for both exams via the Prometric site and...

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