I recently delivered a free webinar for DevelopMentor on n-tier application development using Entity Framework 4.0. In it I explained how to use what I call “Trackable Data Transfer Objects” to achieve the same result as “Self-Tracking Entities” but using a more lightweight tracking mechanism to achieve better interoperability, as I outlined in this blog [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Webinar: N-Tier Entity Framework with DTOs
Posted in Technical, tagged Entity Framework on April 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Unearthing Some Diamonds in the Rough
Posted in Technical on April 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
O’Reilly has a program that provides online access to books that have yet to be published. It’s called “Rough Cuts” and allows you to read chapters as they are written but before they are cleaned up for final publication, and it provides a discounted price for online and print editions. Given the nature of technology [...]
WCF Data Services versus WCF Soap Services
Posted in Technical on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Someone recently asked me this question: When a company that has been using 2 tiers wants to move to n-tier, what are the considerations for choosing WCF and STEs [or Trackable DTOs] vs. WCF Data Services? This is a great question because it relates to a recent re-alignment of what used to be called “ADO.NET [...]
T4 Supplement to Add Service Reference
Posted in Technical on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a self-admitted control-freak. And when I add a service reference to a project pointing to a WCF service that exposes metadata, I would like more control over the code-generation process. Not long ago I had a specific need to to this when creating a client-side T4 template for my Trackable DTO’s project with Entity [...]
