Don't Be Iffy

I’ve been loving Visual Studio 2012’s SQL Server Object Explorer (SSOE) instead of always jumping out to SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to do database management. SSOE covers many (not all) common tasks…and many more than VS’s Server Explorer let’s you do. But I spent an embarrassing amount of time...

I’ve enjoyed staying home in Vermont for most of 2012 but the wanderlust is setting in. I’m scheduled to speak at two conferences in April: DevIntersection April 8-12, Las Vegas I’ll be doing 3 talks at this conference, but am not exactly sure which ones will be selected yet. And yes...

This fall I got myself a new development computer. I did my usual indecisive Libra thing over for months before settling on something. My last machine was one that I got arm-twisted into building myself. I’m just not made for this. It should have been obvious when the parts list I selected from Newegg...

It took us a long time and a bit of luck to get to the bottom of this problem. It turns out that at two completely different client sites they had computers whose machine.config file had been affected in a way that was causing an error in Code First. The error that was being thrown at runtime was: “Unable...

I wanted to give the new Multi-Tenant migration feature in the EF6 alpha (released Oct 30, 2012) a whirl and having done so, thought I would save someone a few steps figuring it out. The specs are very useful and thankfully I’m fairly familiar with migrations already so I didn’t have much...

I haven’t spent a lot of time on CodePlex until EF got there. So between learning my way around CodePlex and also how the EF team is organizing all of their information, I kept missing key information because I didn’t know where it was tucked away. So I thought I would list what I think are the most...

Being the lazy gal that I am, I tend to put this info on twitter which is just a passing note, to be forgotten within a day. So I thought I’d collect some of this recent content in one place. Recent Interviews Nov 6th, Pluralsight “Meet the Author: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework in the...

I just downloaded Office 2013 Pro Plus from MSDN to install on a machine that was running the preview. As this is a recently repaved computer, Office 2013 Preview was the only version of Office on the box. In prep, I sought out others’ reports on the web, but couldn't find anything except a note somewhere...

There’s still time to register for my post-conference workshop at DevConnections. VPS301: Entity Framework in the Enterprise: A Day of Guidance for Avoiding and Solving the Big Problems HANDS-ON, BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP (9:00 AM - 4:00 PM) Add'l Fee $425.00 Entity Framework’s default behaviors...

Well..new as in published last month but I never blogged about it. This is a 3hr16 minute course called “ Entity Framework in the Enterprise ”. Learn how Entity Framework fits into your overall software solution when using enterprise level architecture. You'll see how to implement DDD Bounded Contexts...