Daily Archives: March 16, 2011

New EF4 & EF4.1 content on MSDN

I’ve been busily writing and recording screencasts about Entity Framework 4 and 4.1 for MSDN and some of the fruits of my labor are finally online. Although there is much more to come.

1) Drag & Drop Databinding with the Entity Framework and WPF
Learn how developers can use the Entity Framework to easily build WPF windows or even master detail windows with WPF with little or even no code at all.

2) Building an MVC 3 App with Code First and Entity Framework 4.1
In this whitepaper, Julie Lerman walks through creating a simple MVC 3 application using Entity Framework’s code first technology to describe the classes and manage all data access.

3) Building an MVC 3 App with Model First and Entity Framework 4.1
In this whitepaper, Julie Lerman walks through creating a simple MVC 3 application using Entity Framework’s model first workflow and how to use features introduced in Entity Framework 4.1 DbContext API to write the data access code.

4) Building an MVC 3 App with Database First and Entity Framework 4.1
In this whitepaper, Julie Lerman walks through creating a simple MVC 3 application using Entity Framework’s database first workflow and how to use features introduced in Entity Framework 4.1 DbContext API to write data access code.

Links & Resources from 24HOP Presentation

•Programming Entity Framework, 2nd Ed, O’Reilly Media www.learnentityframework.com

•MSDN Data Dev Center (www.msdn.com/data)

•SQL Server Developer Center, Database Connectivity http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/connectivity

•EF Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet 

•Improvements to Generated SQL in .NET 4.0 May, 2010
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2010/05/10/improvements-to-generated-sql-in-net-4-0.aspx

•LINQ to SQL & Entity Framework: Panacea or evil incarnate? –Bob Beauchemin 2008 6-Part Blog Series

http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/BOBB