Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Cost of Obesity

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Tony Sneed

A recent study estimated that obesity costs Americans $147 billion per year, by causing four major diseases: heart disease, diabetes, cancer and stroke. A full one third of Americans are obese. Not a day goes by when I don’t see … Continue reading →

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More on Entity Framework 4.0

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Tony Sneed

DevelopMentor just published an article I wrote on What’s New and Cool in Entity Framework 4.0, where I explain the new support for POCO and n-tier applications in EF 4.0.  Enjoy. Tony

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Top Ten New Features in Entity Framework 4.0

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Tony Sneed

The Entity Framework team at Microsoft has been extremely busy this past year to get a new version of the Entity Framework out the door. The first release (which shipped last summer with .NET 3.5 SP1) generated a fair amount … Continue reading →

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Smarter Tx Promotion with SQL Server 2008

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Tony Sneed

A while ago I blogged on a gotcha to watch out for when using System.Transactions with SQL Server 2005. Basically, if you open a second connection to SQL Server from inside a using block in which you create a new … Continue reading →

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