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Entity Framework Core: Getting Started on Pluralsight

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I’m happy to share a new course on Pluralsight with you – Entity Framework Core: Getting Started.

Here’s how I described it in the trailer:

Most software – whether for business or entertainment – is driven by data that users need to interact with. In Entity Framework Core: Getting Started, you will learn how to use Microsoft’s modern data access platform, Entity Framework Core. You will learn how to build data models, use EF Core to bridge your software with  your data store and how to incorporate all of this into desktop, mobile and web applications. When you’re finished with this course, you will have a foundational knowledge of Entity Framework Core that will help you as you move forward to build software in .NET, whether you are targeting Windows, OS X or Linux. Software required: Visual Studio 2015 or Visual Studio 2017.

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Here is the list of modules in the course. You can see the titles of various clips in each module on Pluralsight.

To see the full list of my courses on Pluralsight, go to pluralsight.com/authors/julie-lerman

Looking Ahead to Entity Framework 7 on Pluralsight

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Pluralsight has published my latest course, a 2.5 hour course about Entity Framework 7 (EF7).

“Looking Ahead to Entity Framework 7”

EF7 is not released yet. It will get released as a “pre-release” along with ASP.NET 5 so that there is a data stack available for projects that target the CoreCLR. Then the team will do a lot more work on EF7 for a full release possibly (wild guess) at the end of 2015. There are a lot of changes since EF7 is begin rewritten from the ground up. Many new features – from things like Batch Updates that we’ve been asking for since v1 to totally new concepts like being able to query and update against non-relational data stores. But there will also be things that do not get carried forward – most notably for some is the EDMX, the designer based entity model.

This course will show you what’s coming, what’s going, demonstrate a lot of the new features (as they are currently …aka the Alpha or earlier versions) and provide guidance about deciding if and when to move to EF7.

Here is an list of the modules:

You can see the more detailed Table of Contents here.

I’ve already gotten some great feedback on the course. My favorite tweet so far was:

“Great info and insight. I don’t know if I’m happier with what’s being added or being removed.”

Check it out and let me know what you think of EF7!

Domain-Driven Design Fundamentals Course on Pluralsight

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Steve Smith and I are excited to finally have our Domain-Driven Design Fundamentals course available on Pluralsight (http://juliel.me/PS-DDD ) . It was a long haul creating the course but we wanted it to be just right. And coordinating our schedules became tricky since we really wanted to collaborate completely on this, not just divide up the work and sew it together.

We were also grateful to have Eric Evan’s, the “father” of DDD, participate in the course by letting us interview him and use the resulting video clips where he provides thoughtful and insightful advice throughout the course.

The course has now been out for a few weeks and the reception has been great. Good ratings, great feedback in the discussions and on twitter are making us quite proud of our hard work. And it’s has been in Pluralsight’s Top 10 list (based on past 10 days viewing) in the entire library of some [I believe] 1500 courses since a few days after it was released.

If you don’t have a subscription (but really, they are only $29/month), there is a 10 day free trial on the website and I also have 30 day free trial cards I can share. Let us know what you think!

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DDD Fundamentals, SOON SOON

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imageSteve Smith and I have been working for quite a while on a Domain-Driven Design Fundamentals course for Pluralsight. Our schedules and some interesting, unexpected but quite welcome, learning curves and most importantly, our “go big or go home” desire to refine, clarify and polish everything made this take longer to finish than either of us imagined.

In addition, the demo app that we show and evolve throughout the course – much of which is Steve’s genius – is totally kick-ass!

We are grateful that Eric Evans participated in this by chatting with us on Skype and capturing video to include throughout the course. We also are thankful for some guidance from another DDD guru, Vaughn Vernon.

The course is about 4.5 hours long, broken up into 7 modules.

The course has been done, reviewed, edited and absolutely final…ready to be published but unfortunately, so are many other new courses on Pluralsight. So the DDD Fundamentals is in the queue to get published soon.

Believe me, Steve & I will be tweeting up a storm when this thing finally goes live so watch our blogs or twitter (I’m twitter.com/julielerman, he’s twitter.com/ardalis).