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I moved a small EF 4.3 solution to EF5 (and to .NET 4.5) so I can add the new enum support to it. Then I started the process all over again and captured it as a screencast.
Pluralsight is hosting it ...
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post showing how EF5 uses DbLocal as its default database along with a screenshot of the configuration info that EF5 puts into your config (web.config or app.config) of ...
EF 4.x: EF 4.1+ has a DataAnnotations namespace for the new EF related annotations. Most of them are related to database schema. EF 5 Not even a DataAnnotations namespace in here. Thats because t...
What did I do? I wasted hours and hours so that I can share this lesson with you. The bottom line is that Im kindofa dope sometimes. I had an EF 4.3 project that I moved onto a new machine with VS11 ...
In my recent Code First Migrations course on Pluralsight.com, I showed how you can get detailed information about the parameters of update-database. These can also be used if you want to execute the m...
Visual Studio 11 brings a new development database -- SQL Server Local Database. Bye bye SQL Server Express dependency. I typically let Code First run with its default database of choice up to now ...
Entity Framework is evolving rapidly which is why they are releasing via NuGet rather than being strapped to the .NET release cycle. (You can read more about the hows and whys of EFs release cycle her...
Arthur Vickers, from the EF team, tweeted: Also, very happy to be moving to @scottgu's org with the rest of the Entity Framework team. Great for us, great for EF, great for Microsoft. Just a rem...
Using OData in apps is so easy thanks to REST & JSON. But OData works directly against a data model with a limited set of operations and capabilities. You can do some customization but at some poi...
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My newest course is live on Pluralsight.com. This one is about using the new data migrations feature of Entity Framework Code First. These were first introduced with EF 4.3. Migrations lets you update...
EF 4.3 added a new extension method for DbSet called AddOrUpdate. It is meant for use with seeding data during migrations. It looks like a nice method to add into your apps but thats not its purpose...
As developers and analysts, we spend a lot of time asking what if?. What if the user enters too many characters into this data entry field? What if the network hiccups during a database save? ...
In working on my upcoming EF 4.3 Migrations video for Pluralsight, I wanted to work out how to use this with an existing database where I plan to add new types and therefore want migrations to not jus...
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You may already be familiar with the fact that ASP.NET MVC 3 tooling includes a scaffolding option that lets you point to a domain class and automatically build a Controller, a set of Views and if it ...
My newest course is live on Pluralsight.com. This one is all about performing data layer validations in EF 4.1 (4.2, 4.3) using the Validation API that’s part of the DbContext.
Data Layer Valida...
A friendly reminder about the UserVoice site where you can suggest and vote on features youd like to see in Entity Framework (http://data.uservoice.com/forums/72025-ado-net-entity-framework-ef-feature...
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Oracle has finally released it’s version of ODP.NET that supports Entity Framework for use in production environments.
And they report that this release supports EF 4.1 and EF 4.2. That should m...
I received this pair of questions about EF in email and thought I would share the questions and my reply. Q: I've read some articles about Code First, I've tried to do some samples and I'm going to ...
Entity Frameworks Include method which eager loads related data in a query does not allow sorting and filtering. People ask for this feature frequently. There is a way around the problem. I wrote abo...
Ive had tweets and emails from readers asking if there is any point to reading the 2nd edition of Programming Entity Framework if they are only planning to use Code First and DbContext. (Before an...
In the recent blog post, How We Talk about EF and its Future Versions, the EF team announced that going forward, the stuff of EF thats in .NET, will be referred to as the EF Core Libraries. For exampl...
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The 24 Talks of Vermont Code Camp Saturday Sept. 10th, Burlington Vermont Once again, we have a fabulous array of talks with many technologies covered. Well be building the actual schedule in t...
I’m excited about embarking on my first full-week workshop. Until now, I have done a number of one-day workshops but I have always felt that I needed more time. There’s so much to sh...
After I finished writing the first edition of Programming Entity Framework, 832 pages long, I announced to anyone within earshot that if I every talked about writing another book to just shoot me.
Aft...
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Ahh another one of the very awesome features of the new CTP! Pre-compiled LINQ to Entities queries (LINQ to SQL has them too) are an incredible performance boost. Entity Framework has to a bit of wor...
Well, this change really came in the March 2011 CTP but I didn’t realize it until the June CTP was out, so I’ll call it a wash.
WCF Data Services has had a bad problem with inherited types...
I want to look at some of the vast array of great improvements coming to EF that are part of the June 2011 CTP that was released yesterday. Everyones going on and on about the enums. Theres a lot m...
Ive been asked repeatedly about the viability of my book, Programming Entity Framework, and the other EF4 books out there now that EF 4.1 has been released. The EF4 books are still totally viable and...
I was using a hack to turn off the Database Initialization for code first. I didn’t want code first to do the model/database comparison, and found the best way I could figure out…I delete...
The MVC3.1 scaffolding that was released at Mix can auto-magically create an EF 4.1 DBContext class, the basic CRUD code in your controller and the relevant views all in one fell swoop. (Don’t f...
The Entity Framework team blogged about the EF Power Tools CTP1 today. One of the intriguing features is the ability to reverse engineer an existing database into a set of code first classes. ...
My recent Data Points column in MSDN Magazine (May 2011) provided an overview of the differences between the three workflows for creating an Entity Framework model: 1) Reverse engineer and existing d...
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The Entity Framework 4.1 DbContext is a lightweight version of the EF ObjectContext. It's simpler to work with thanks t a streamlined surface of properties and methods. It may be just what you'v...
I spent waaaaaay too much time on this problem yesterday and wanted to share the solution, or more accurately, the workaround. Im creating an Azure hosted Data Service and to as a consumer, an Azure ...
Currently, 8 of the 10 videos on Code First and EF 4.1 I have already created for MSDN are online but they are not easy to find. Three of them are on the msdn.com/data/videos page. The others have no...
One of the announcements this morning at MIX11 was the MVC 3 Tools Update. Phil Haack has a blog post about them here: http://haacked.com/archive/2011/04/12/introducing-asp-net-mvc-3-tools-update.asp...
If youve been using code first, you may be aware that you can add validations such as Required or MaxLength to your classes using DataAnnotations, e.g., [Required]
public string Title{get ;s...
MVC is by definition stateless so how do you deal with timestamp that needs to be persisted across post backs in order to be used for concurrency checking? Heres how Im achieving this using EF4.1 (RC...
Based on an email in my inbox, I wanted to point out the key to overriding the Database Initializer that seeds a newly generated database when you use EF 4.1 code first. The Seed method takes whateve...
Ive been busily writing and recording screencasts about Entity Framework 4 and 4.1 for MSDN and some of the fruits of my labor are finally online. Although there is much more to come. 1) Drag & Dr...
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Just got this very nice note from Alex Keh at Oracle.
Hi Julie,
Since I know you have a special interest in Entity Framework, I wanted to let you know that Oracle released its EF beta today. It can b...
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