Daily Archives: May 21, 2008

To SPROC or not to SPROC

I’ve been spending a lot of time futzing with stored procedures in Entity Framework and losing sight of the fact that one of EF’s core features is its ability to do query processing – and that is something it does very very well.

The Stored Proc support is obviously critical for many and while it’s there, some scenarios are pretty easy to pull off, while many others are possible  but not so easy to implement and that can get frustrating.

What I’m trying to do is just truly see which things are easily pulled off in the designer (and discovering more than I realized), which are doable and which might take a hack or two to get around.

I think that in my case I was focused on the trees and forgot the the forest.

Thanks to the person who helped remind me of that.

Matthieu Mezil’s new English blog

Matthieu Mezil is a Parisian who really digs .NET and the Entity Framework. He writes a lot about it in his native tongue (that would be French ;-)) in his blog.

Since my French, which I studied for 4 years in high school and college (which was a long, long time ago) is pretty rusty, I use google’s translation to get a gist of what he is saying in his blog.

But now that Matthieu is an MVP, he has started a mirror blog in English on the msmvps.com/blogs site.

So to recap

Matthieu Mezil in French

Matthieu Mezil in English