Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Cost of Obesity

Posted on July 28, 2009 by

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 →

Posted in Personal | Leave a comment

More on Entity Framework 4.0

Posted on July 14, 2009 by

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

Posted in Technical | Leave a comment

Top Ten New Features in Entity Framework 4.0

Posted on July 9, 2009 by

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 →

Posted in Technical | 8 Comments

Smarter Tx Promotion with SQL Server 2008

Posted on July 9, 2009 by

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 →

Posted in Technical | Leave a comment