Monthly Archives: December 2009

ELINQ with EF 4.0 Course Update

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. … Continue reading

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Faking Enums in Entity Framework 4.0

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 … Continue reading

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Adding Your Own T4 Templates for EF4 to Visual Studio 2010

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 … Continue reading

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Learn What’s New in Entity Framework 4.0!

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, … Continue reading

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