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 ads for weight control programs and surgical interventions. But none of these options seems to [...]
Archive for July, 2009
The Cost of Obesity
Posted in Personal on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More on Entity Framework 4.0
Posted in Technical on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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
Top Ten New Features in Entity Framework 4.0
Posted in Technical on July 9, 2009 | 8 Comments »
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 of criticism, especially because it lacked many features present in LINQ to SQL, such as [...]
Smarter Tx Promotion with SQL Server 2008
Posted in Technical on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 TransactionScope, SQL Server will automatically promote the transaction to a distributed one in which the [...]
