Deborah Kurata is blogging
Friday, July 03 2009 - Just Rambling
VS Debugging - Why did VS stop breaking on Exceptions?
Friday, July 03 2009 - dotNET
Book recommendations by David Chappell include Programming Entity Framework
Thursday, July 02 2009 - Book
I am very honored to be on a short list of books (three, in fact) recommended by David Chappell in his recent blog post “Good Books”. And I am in impressive company – with Dino Esposito & Andrea Saltarello and Jon Flanders. Here’s what David has to say about my book: Programming Entity Framework...
Read More...Oracle Woos Microsoft OracleClient users
Monday, June 29 2009 - Data Access
Although Oracle has long had an area of it’s website dedicated to it’s .NET provider, ODP.NET , they have recently added a page specifically for users of Microsoft’s soon-to-be deprecated System.Data.OracleClient: ODP.NET for Microsoft OracleClient No mention of EF support yet, not...
Read More...Eating the Dog Food during App Week
Saturday, June 27 2009 - Data Access
From Danny Simmon's blog : App week is a time we set aside at periodically to devote as much of our attention as possible to using the EF and related technologies to build applications so that we can experience some of the joys (and pain) of our valued customers....
Read More...Effective EF with Oracle
Friday, June 26 2009 - Data Access
Now that DataDirect’s Beta of their Oracle Provider with EF support is available, Jonathan Bruce (from DD) is starting to write technical posts about how to use it. Yesterday he posted Effective EF with Oracle And today: Effective EF with Oracle (Stored Procedures with REF CURSORs)...
Read More...Sampson gets a new home
Thursday, June 25 2009 - Purely Personal
Last June, Rich & I said goodbye to our darling old ladies, Tasha & Daisy, and have been sad and dogless ever since. Yesterday, finally, we picked up a new dog, Sampson. He’s a 17 month old Newfoundland and we are his fourth and final home. Although my parents are newfie breeders, this is not...
Read More...And where would you go to shed your skin
Thursday, June 25 2009 - Vermont
Last year I found three snake skins in the compost bin. Last night I found three snakes and one new skin. They didn’t like me taking their picture and I didn’t get it focused well, but at least I was kind and put the compost into the other bin. Note: In my comments I misidentified these as...
Read More...EF: Why work with ObjectStateEntries instead of the objects directly?
Tuesday, June 23 2009 - Data Access
Most often when you want to interact with an object’s state, or change tracking information you cannot do that through the object itself. Instead you need to get at the ObjectStateEntry which the context created to manage the object. Inside the the ObjectStateEntry you have access to the current...
Read More...The Rest of EF4 - Feature CTP1 Released today
Monday, June 22 2009 - Data Access
There were three big things that the EF team could not get into the VS2010 box on time – POCO T4 Templates, Code-Only features (POCO without a model) and Self-Tracking Entities. Even though VS2010 is only in Beta 1, the way the release cycles work, these three things won’t be part of the RTM. But they...
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