I’ve been working feverishly the last couple of months to update my DevelopMentor course: Essential LINQ with Entity Framework 4.0. Here is a breakdown of the course content: Day 1: 1. Functional Programming in C# 2. LINQ to Objects 3. LINQ to XML Day 2: 4. LINQ to SQL 5. EF: Architecture 6. EF: LINQ [...]
Archive for December, 2009
ELINQ with EF 4.0 Course Update
Posted in Technical on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Faking Enums in Entity Framework 4.0
Posted in Technical on December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I ran across a great post from Alex James on how to fake enums in EF4. I’ve had a great deal of experience using enums with LINQ to SQL (via Plinqo), and it’s nice to know how to do it in EF, while waiting for the feature to come out-of-the-box in a future version. http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/archive/2009/06/05/tip-23-how-to-fake-enums-in-ef-4.aspx [...]
Adding Your Own T4 Templates for EF4 to Visual Studio 2010
Posted in Technical on December 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been missing the T4 template for POCO classes that shipped with CTP 1 of Entity Framework 4.0 but was absent from CTP 2. So I wanted to create my own and have it available in Visual Studio when selecting “Add Code Generation Artifact” from the context menu after right-clicking on the design surface of [...]
Learn What’s New in Entity Framework 4.0!
Posted in Technical on December 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ll be presenting a free DevelopMentor web cast on Tuesday Dec 8, 2009 at 9:00 am (Pacific Standard Time) on new features in Entity Framework 4.0. There’s way too much that’s new to cover in a 90 minute web cast, but we’ll be focusing on the biggies: POCO Classes T4 Code-Generation Templates Lazy Loading Change-Tracking [...]
