Don't Be Iffy

O’Reilly Media has placed the new edition of my book available in their “Deal of the Day” program today. You can get the ebook version for only $9.99. That’s TODAY only, though: Monday August 30, 2010. Go to http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807269 and use the discount code DDPEF...

Last week I was working with a client and we were creating some repositories to use with EF4 entities in her application. I felt kinda dumb because I couldn’t reason out where to put a method to retrieve “child” data, e.g., GetEmployeesForCompany(Company company). The method not only retrieves the employees...

I've published the chapter list for the latest edition of Programming ENtity Framework on the book's website. You can read that here: http://learnentityframework.com/book/chapter-list-for-programming-entity-framework-2nd-edition/...

In a 900 page book, this was the only creative writing I got to do so I had some fun with it. :) There are a lot of hyperlinks to push into here for the blog post, I will come back to that task later. Acknowledgments And now for the most rewarding writing task after completing over 800 pages of technical...

This is in reference to Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition When I originally wrote the directions for modifying the T4 template in Chapter 18 (Using POCOs and Self-Tracking Entities in WCF Services), I was working with the “almost” RTM version of the Microsoft’s POCO T4 template. Since my modified...

Vermont Code Camp 2 is Saturday Sept 11, 2010 in Burlington, Vermont. We will be taking submissions for presentations through Sunday August 23rd. Below is a list of the current abstracts submitted for the event. We can fit more talks in during the day since we have 4 rooms so if you want to submit go...

This past week, my niece came to visit from Massachusetts and I had a mini-vacation. One of the many activities we did was take a hike and because it was cool-ish, we brought Sampson along. Here we are high up in the Green Mountains enjoying views of the Adirondacks. Mr. Muddy-Paws had found a nice cool...

I’ve started working on my fall calendar…here’s what’s going on so far.   Cleveland, Ohio, August (okay not quite fall…) Tuesday August 10: Cleveland .NET SIG ( INETA User Group Event) http://www.bennettadelson.com/netsig.aspx   Vermont, September Saturday Sept 11: Vermont Code Camp 2! ...

Request for Proposal Application Development Support 7/19/2010 The Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC), a non-profit corporation, requests proposals for application development support to be completed and presented to VEIC by 7/26/2010. Electronic submissions of the proposals are welcome and...

I’m waiting for the O’Reilly site, Amazon and elsewhere to update the descriptions of the two different editions of my book. Since not everyone is lucky enough to move to VS2010 and EF4, both editions will be on the market. Right now they both have the same description online which is wrong. I don’t...