Monthly Archives: December 2009

ELINQ with EF 4.0 Course Update

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Tony Sneed

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

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Tony Sneed

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

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Tony Sneed

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!

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Tony Sneed

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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