Thanks for attending the ONETUG Brown Bag meeting today where I did a quick look at various approaches to working with EF: database/model/code first, working with POCOs and legacy classes and talking about range of using EF in RAD apps to a more architected enterprise app. You can find my PowerPoint...

On Monday Sept 27th, Rachel Appel , Steve Bohlen and I presented a full day of Entity Framework presentations at the Entity Framework NYC Firestarter to help developers get started with EF. The combined slides from our six sessions are on SlideShare.NET at Entity Framework NYC Firestarter (note that...

I have posted the slides and demos for two of my three NECC14 talks that I did yesterday (Oct 2nd) on the downloads page of my book's website at   http://learnentityframework.com/downloads/#conf You’ll find the demos for Persistence Ignorant Entity Framework 4 and n-Tier ASP.NET Web Forms Apps...

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! ...

Update: The webcast is online! But I unfortunately, the sound is dreadful. I’m still waiting for the recording of the webcast to go online. It’s not there yet, but when it is, it will be on the same OReillyNet page that was used for registering: Entity Framework Tips & Tricks August 27th...

Next week I'll be doing a Live Meeting based presentation for the Florida.NET - they are calling it Fort Lauderdale Online . The presentation will be Entity Framework Core Concepts, something I think people seem to want out of every EF session I present. Therefore, I decided to create a whole session...

I remember watching a presentation a few years ago by a Microsoft presenter who seemed to start every sentence with "so". It quickly became all the rage amongst speakers from Microsoft and I always notice it and cringe. It is a completely unconscious "tick". Another one of the "hold please, just gathering...

Many of the demos I do with Entity Framework do not involve the UI. In order to run them however, I need to start with some type of exe, so I just build a console app whose main method calls the different methods to demonstrate functionality. Someone suggested that rather than use the console app, I...

Today I head off to beautiful Stockholm, Sweden for the 2009 version of Cornerstone's Developer Summit. I spoke at this conference last year and really loved it. Not just being in Stockholm (what a city!) but the conference was a lot of fun for me because I met a lot of new people who approach software...

I'm thrilled to learn that I'll be going to Warsaw in mid-March to speak at the Communities to Communities event. I normally say "no no no" to winter travel but Michal Chaniewski has been trying to get me there for a few years so I finally said yes. I'm really looking forward to this. I've never been...