Daily Archives: October 19, 2012

Full Day Entity Framework Workshop Nov 2 at DevConnections

Presentations

There’s still time to register for my post-conference workshop at DevConnections.

VPS301: Entity Framework in the Enterprise: A Day of Guidance for Avoiding and Solving the Big Problems
HANDS-ON, BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP (9:00 AM – 4:00 PM)
Add’l Fee $425.00

Entity Framework’s default behaviors work wonderfully for demonstration or small applications. But once you start building large applications that will use EF in the data layer, you can quickly run into problems. Most often these are performance problems which can be the result of anything from poor data layer architecture to a simple misunderstanding of how EF works under the covers. EF guru Julie Lerman has been hired by many corporations to help developers and architects discover the causes and then fix underlying problems with how they are implementing Entity Framework. In this one day workshop, we’ll focus on some of the most common problems around architecture, scalability and performance that Julie has encountered while mentoring these development teams. You’ll learn what changes you can make in your apps to fix them as well as how to plan ahead when you are building new apps or moving legacy applications to Entity Framework.

The plan for this workshop is to be very interactive. Bring your problems, your laptops and even some code (that is okay for others to see). If you have a nasty performance issue that we could use to demonstrate getting to the source of the problem and provide suggestions for fixing it, contact Julie through her blog (http://thedatafarm.wpengine.com/blog/contact/) by October 15.

http://devconnections.com/shows/fall2012/workshops.aspx?s=190

New Entity Framework in the Enterprise Course on Pluralsight

Data Access

Well..new as in published last month but I never blogged about it.

This is a 3hr16 minute course called “Entity Framework in the Enterprise”.

Learn how Entity Framework fits into your overall software solution when using enterprise level architecture. You’ll see how to implement DDD Bounded Contexts with EF, Repository and Unit of Work patterns and a variety of styles of automated testing. This course is applicable to apps built with V2010, EF4.1+ and .NET 4 as well as with VS2012, EF5 and .NET 4.5.

There are four modules.

1) Architecting the Data Layer (Overview)

2) Bounded DbContext

3) Repositories and Unit of Work

4) Automated Testing

Pluralsight put a 10-minute clip of this on YouTube and the blogged about it. The clip focuses on the Domain Driven Design Bounded Context pattern and how I’ll implement it with Entity Framework. Here is that clip.

The full course (which requires a subscription, but a month for $29 that gives you full access to the entire Pluralsight library is pretty cheap!) . Here’s the link to the course.

I now have 9 Entity Framework courses on Pluralsight which is almost 17 hours worth of content.

Enjoy!