Daily Archives: August 17, 2012

Recent Noteworthy Entity Framework Posts You Won’t Want to Miss

Data Access

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and I make no promises that I will do this periodically, but here goes.

These are blog posts I’ve linked to twitter, but that’s ancient history after a few hours.


Code First Stored Procedures With Multiple Results  Posted on August 15, 2012. (Rowan Miller from the EF Team)

 

5 part series on Contributing to newly open-sourced EF by Arthur Vickers (another EF team member)

So you want to contribute to EF? Part 1: Introduction

So you want to contribute to EF? Part 2: The code

So you want to contribute to EF? Part 3: Testing

So you want to contribute to EF? Part 4: Developer experience

So you want to contribute to EF? Part 5: High-level architecture

 

A Troubleshooting Guide for Entity Framework Connections & Migrations

by K.Scott Allen. This one looks like a compilation of emails I have sent to people who ask me questions like this all the time. Kudos to Scott for putting this together.

 

Don’t forget that msdn.com/data/ef is the easy way to get to the Entity Framework Developer Center.

 

I’ve also written some posts on Entity Framework (they all go in my Data Access category). Since you are reading this post, I’ll assume you know how to find those so there’s no point in highlighting them here. Smile

How to get Windows 8 Pro from MSDN Subscriptions

Windows

I made a silly mistake last night and then saw someone asking about the same thing on an email list this morning, so thought I would drop this bit of information here.

There are plenty of resources explaining the different version of Windows 8. For example, this Microsoft blog post: Announcing the Windows 8 Editions and this Wikipedia entry : Windows 8 editions

The one that most of us developers probably wan tis the Windows 8 Pro. But when you look on MSDN Subscriptions you will see variations on Windows 8, WIndows 8 Enterprise that you can download. Windows 8 Pro VL is listed but that’s for Volume License subscribers and there’s a “you can’t download this one, sorry” note beside those.

I gave up trying to figure out how to get Pro and downloaded Enterprise. Wrong! Winking smile

Then this morning, someone pointed out my mistake.

The simple Windows 8 download is for [simple, aka Consumer] Windows 8 *and* Windows 8 Pro. The trick is that there are different keys:

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So with one download, you’re good for either the consumer version or the Pro version of Windows 8.

If I didn’t live in the boonies, this wouldn’t have been a big deal. But since it took me over 3 hours to download the Enterprise and then another 3 to download the normal versions, it’s a mistake I won’t forget!