Author Archives: Tony Sneed

UPDATE: The screencast video is now available to be streamed or downloaded. I just delivered a screencast for DevelopMentor on Entity Framwork Real World topics – Transactions, Concurrency, Stored Procedures.  A recording of the screencast will soon be available, but … Continue reading →

UPDATE: I created a new version of the client-side T4 template for generating trackable DTO’s.  This completely decouples the client from the service by producing POCO classes based on the service metadata, instead of on the entity data model used … Continue reading →

Last week while teaching my new LINQ and Entity Framework course I got a question asking me to compare EF4 with NHibernate.  Not having worked extensively with NHibernate, I wasn’t in a position to address the question.  Then yesterday I … Continue reading →

As part of my DevelopMentor Entity Framework course, I put together a delicious web site containing over 100 links to Entity Framework 4.0 topics. http://delicious.com/tonysneed_elinq Enjoy.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Following the release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2, the Entity Framework team put out a second CTP for Entity Framework 4.0, which includes enhancements to self-tracking entities. As the name implies, self-tracking entities know how to … Continue reading →