Digital Version of Programming Entity Framework is Live!

Tuesday, January 27 2009 - Book

I just went to check for new feedback on the Rough Cuts for my book and saw that the feedback is gone and the final version of the book is available.

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That means that the Rough Cuts readers now have access to the final version of the book as well. Safari subscribers, too.

The physical book won't be back from the printer until Monday, I'm told. Amazon seems to think they won't be able to start shipping until the 12th, but I'm hoping that will be earlier. O'Reilly might be able to ship sooner. Don't forget that most user groups have a 35% discount available for purchasing directly at OReilly.com.

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#1 Tony on 1.28.2009 at 3:55 AM

Hi Julie.I'm one of the rough cut customers and I like your book. Nice Material, but, where can we download book accompanying source code? - I just can't find it.Instructions to find that on the oreilly site are welcome.

#2 Darren on 1.30.2009 at 9:30 PM

Ah, this is great news.I've been looking forward to your book for some time now.It looks like this will be a good weekend!

#3 Julia Lerman on 1.30.2009 at 10:15 PM

Tony, the downloads are currently on my own site for the book at www.learnentityframework.com/downloads. When Safari puts them up, they will be accessible from the Examples link that you can see as a subscriber on the book's website at my.safaribooksonline.com/.../9780596156244

#4 David Martin on 2.02.2009 at 5:40 PM

So far I really like the book.However, one suggestion that I would have made.Many books choose way to simple of a "real-life" example.I understand the need for this and believe you did good.But I would say the relationships could have been just slightly more complex so that you could speak to them.For instance, you have a many-to-many join between Equipment and Activity.I would have suggested adding a Count field to the schema to show how EF will handle that.Then you could have spoken to the fetch/update/insert scenario in those cases.Actually you may have, and if so please let me know where.I don't usually read these books cover to cover but rather search out the information I need.This is a problem I am currently facing, and since I knew the book was available on my Safari Library I went and grabbed it.All in all great work.