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Archive for November, 2008
VS 2010: It’s Time to Play
Posted in Technical on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Better N-Tier Concurrency Management for the Entity Framework
Posted in Technical on November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just wrote an article for MSDN Magazine (due out in December) about developing n-tier applications for both LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework. While researching the topic, I noticed a certain awkwardness with the Entity Framework API when it came to managing concurrency with a timestamp fields, as compared with LINQ to SQL. [...]
The Future of LINQ to SQL Looks Bleak
Posted in Technical on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We now have a fairly clear message from Microsoft that LINQ to SQL will be deprecated in favor of the Entity Framework: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/31/clarifying-the-message-on-l2s-futures.aspx This is basically an admission that coming out with two competing relational data access technologies was not the best possible story, and that unifying data access on the Entity Framework will be [...]
Karisma: Our Surprise Baby!
Posted in Personal on November 1, 2008 | 11 Comments »
At 3 am on the morning of October 31st, my wife Zuzana delivered our second child: Karisma Sarah Elizabeth Sneed. To everyone’s amazement, the baby arrived while we were still at home, before we had the chance to get in the car and go to the hospital! In fact, she arrived even before the paramedics [...]
