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Keynote Address working title: Journey to DDD Entity Framework in Core Business Applications and Domain-Driven Design Approaches See the mini-DDD track in New Orleans & Madrid Vote for Entity Framework in Core Business Applications Automated Testing for Fraidy Cats Like Me...

Course Released Hrs:Min Entity Framework 4.0 By Example Aug 2010 2:19 Entity Framework and Data Models Nov 2010 1:32 Designer Supported EDM Customization Jan 2011 2:05 Querying the Entity Framework Feb 2011 1:23 Entity Framework 4.1 - Code First Jun 2011 1:59 Entity Framework 4.1 - DbContext Sep 2011...

I’m thrilled to have been invited to deliver the keynote talk at CodeStock 2013 in Knoxville this July. I’ll be talking about how Domain Driven Design (DDD) has inspired me a-new after almost 25 years of software development. And I hope to inspire others to take a closer look at DDD as well. In addition...

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TLDR: Setup steps to get WCFDS 5.4 up and running JULBS (Julie’s Usual Lengthy Back Story): WCF Data Services (aka WCFDS) updates are being released at a rapid pace. I think they are on a hoped-for 6-week release schedule and they just released 5.4 a few days ago. One of the reasons is that they...

Brian Sullivan was having a weird query performance problem with one particular EF query and asked about it here on Stackoverflow . Some very knowledgeable people asked all the right questions. It made no sense. He finally discovered the source of the problem himself. His code first model defined a string...

Here is a 6 minute preview from my new Pluralsight course, Getting Started with Entity Framework 5.   The course is about 4.5 hours long and I’ve written a small “guide” to it in this blog post: Getting Started with EF5 – New Course on Pluralsight so that you can decide if the course is for you...

I had the pleasure of going to Cambridge this weekend along with a car load of Vermonters (myself, Rachel Reese, Dennis Doire and Kyle Mitofksy) to participate in Boston Code Camp at Microsoft’s NERD Center. We left just as Boston was getting pummeled with snow and a prediction of 10-14”...

While EF5 did not bring a huge amount of change to Entity Framework, one small change in the EF Designer in Visual Studio 2012 made a huge difference for people getting started with Entity Framework. The designer now uses a code generator that spits out POCO entity classes managed by a DbContext by default...

This tweet stopped me in my tracks because I couldn’t reply in a tweet: Stephen Coulson @sdcoulson @julielerman In your opinion what is the best solution for unit testing #EF dependent code? #MockingFramework ? #SQLCE ? or other? It’s a loaded question so I’ll just answer briefly. First: it depends!...