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The digital version of Programming Entity Framework: DbContext is now available directly from O’Reilly Media at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022237.do . This was a nice surprise since production only sent the final manuscript to the print production department yesterday. The print version...

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? What if users are allowed to delete the record for this consecutively numbered item and then another user worries...

Things are moving again! Our publisher had a production backup due to some staffing changes. Rowan and I are now reviewing the first version of the production manuscript (that is after they’ve converted our Microsoft Word documents into a single doc formatted for the final printing). We’ve got a PDF...

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 just use this database, but migrate it as well. Problem solved*, but then I tried to use it in a production...

Hallam-ICS is looking for a developer for their Malta, NY office. Requirements: Strong OOD/OOP skills. Winforms, WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET, mobile application development including MVC WCF Web services development Expert knowledge in the C# & VB.NET Programming languages (ObjectiveC is a plus...

You may already be familiar with the fact that ASP.NET MVC 3 tooling includes a scaffolding option that let’s you point to a domain class and automatically build a Controller, a set of Views and if it does not exist yet, an Entity Framework DbContext class expose that class. The controller CRUD code...

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 Validation with Entity Framework 4.1+ Working with the DbContext Validation API (total 1 hr 54 m) Module 1...

A friendly reminder about the UserVoice site where you can suggest and vote on features you’d like to see in Entity Framework ( http://data.uservoice.com/forums/72025-ado-net-entity-framework-ef-feature-suggestions ) or in WCF Data Services ( http://data.uservoice.com ). The EF team is wrapping up work...

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Oracle has finally released it’s version of ODP.NET that supports Entity Framework for use in production environments. This is great news for many developers! And they report that this release supports EF 4.1 and EF 4.2. That should mean Code First and DbContext but thanks to Frans Bouma sending...