The Book, The Training


Julie Lerman is recognized as one of the foremost experts outside of Microsoft on Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework.

Julie is available to mentor your company whether you are trying to choose a data access platform or are ready to implement Entity Framework into your architecture.

Here is some early feedback on Programming Entity Framework:

"... extract real value from the EF now. "
Danny Simmons, Development Manager for the Entity Framework Team

Programming Entity Framework is one of the best technical books I've seen in quite a long time. 
Jesse Liberty, Silverlight Development Community Liaison and Author

Julie has done an amazingly comprehensive job covering all aspects of using the ADO.NET Entity Framework. This is sure to become the canonical reference book on the subject. 
Bob Beauchemin, Developer Skills Partner, SQLskills

"Whatever your view of the technology, though, you need to get this book if you care at all about the area." read full review
 David Chappell, .NET Industry Guru

"One of the best ways to learn about the Entity Framework..." read full review
Scott Mitchell, MSDN Magazine, July 2009

Beach Reading?

Tuesday, August 18 2009        

Jason Haley sent me this picture that he took on a beach on Cape Cod. Apparently Jason does not know the meaning of light beach reading! At least some part of me is enjoying summer beach weather! I love how the book cover and towel’s color’s sync up....

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Here I go again! Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition (for EF4)

Monday, August 10 2009        

Well, it’s official. I’ve gone completely mad and just sent a signed contract back to O’Reilly for the rewrite of my book, Programming Entity Framework. With such big changes to Entity Framework, I could not let the current version of the book fade away, even though so much of it will remain valid through...

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Short Video about my book on Amazon.com

Thursday, August 06 2009        

No, it’s not a video producer now. :-) My publisher, O’Reilly Media , asked me to make a short video about my book. They pointed me to the Amazon page for another book which has a video as a model for me, Getting Started with Arduino . So I spent some time creating a similar video for my book, first...

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Book recommendations by David Chappell include Programming Entity Framework

Thursday, July 02 2009        

I am very honored to be on a short list of books (three, in fact) recommended by David Chappell in his recent blog post “Good Books”. And I am in impressive company – with Dino Esposito & Andrea Saltarello and Jon Flanders. Here’s what David has to say about my book: Programming Entity Framework...

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2nd Printing of Programming Entity Framework is on its way

Thursday, April 09 2009        

It felt like ages for the first pile of books to run out but I've been told by O'Reilly they are running low enough at the warehouse that they are going to print another batch of books in a week or so. Tech book sales are bad all over, so even though I was hoping this would happen much sooner (sure,...

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Discuss the book with me and other readers

Tuesday, March 10 2009        

While I truly enjoy the emails I'm getting from readers, I'm happy to share with you that O'Reilly has created a forum for discussing this book. http://forums.oreilly.com/category/74/Programming-Entity-Framework/ Keep the emails coming, but if you want to share your thoughts or discoveries with other...

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Errata is being maintained on the O'Reilly site

Saturday, February 28 2009        

Because O'Reilly has a mechanism for readers to submit errata which allows authors to review, comment and confirm that errata, I would rather not duplicate the effort on this site. Here is a link to the errata page for my book on O'Reilly's website: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520281/errata/ ....

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The Acknowledgements from my book

Tuesday, February 17 2009        

I've really been wanting to share the acknowledgements from my book with a wider audience than just the readers of my book (or for that matter, just the readers who happen to even bother reading the Preface. ;)). So, here they are: Where do I begin? I have had great help and support from many people...

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Logging Entity Framework Queries to Look for Perf Improvement Opportunities

Monday, February 16 2009        

One of the big questions people have about Entity Framework's dynamically generated queries is "what does the store query look like?", immediately followed by "is that store query acceptable"? There are a few ways to see what the store generated queries look like. One is to use ObjectQuery.ToTraceString...

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Amazon is finally listing the book as "in stock"

Tuesday, February 10 2009        

The book is already in print and I have a small box of them that I got last week. But still... there's something about Amazon's status that really denotes if the book is live or just memorex. So I was certainly happy to see this a short while ago: Of course Amazon isn't the only place to buy books. ;...

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