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...
Read More...DbContext Book is Online!
Friday, February 24 2012 - Book
The what-if brain: Social pariah for developers?
Wednesday, February 22 2012 - Just Rambling
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...
Read More...DbContext book status
Sunday, February 19 2012 - Book
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...
Read More...Using EF 4.3 Code First Migrations with an Existing Database
Thursday, February 16 2012 - Data Access
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...
Read More....NET/Sharepoint Dev Job in Albany/Saratoga NY area
Wednesday, February 15 2012 - Jobs
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...
Read More...Using T4Scaffolding to Create DbContext and Repository from Domain Classes
Saturday, February 11 2012 - Data Access
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...
Read More...New EF Validations Video on Pluralsight
Friday, February 10 2012 - Data Access
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...
Read More...What do you want to see in Entity Framework?
Monday, January 23 2012 - Data Access
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...
Read More...Vermont IT Jobs: SysAdmin at NRG Systems in Hinesburg (a cool company…c’mon do it!)
Friday, December 30 2011 - Jobs
http://www.nrgsystems.com/ Hinesburg, Vermont Desktop/Systems Administrator Job Description Key Focus The Desktop/Systems Administrator is responsible for providing first line support to NRG’s information technology users; assuring that user’s IT resources are performing as required. This individual...
Read More...Oracle Releases Provider with EF 4 Support (but not really EF 4.1 and EF4.2)
Friday, December 30 2011 - Data Access
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...
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