Author Archives: Tony Sneed

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About Tony Sneed

Sr. Software Solutions Architect, Hilti Global Application Software

EF4 Beta 2 Kicks It Up a Notch

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Tony Sneed

The ADO.NET team has released an update along with Beta 2 of .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.  From the looks of it, they got a lot of nifty features in there, obviating the need for an out-of-cycle CTP.  Having … Continue reading →

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The Joys of Parenting

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Tony Sneed

Whenever I am presented with a new challenge, I like to thoroughly research it. For example, when it came to buying a house, I bought a couple of books and read up on the topic before plunging headlong. I did … Continue reading →

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Who is Improving LINQ to SQL? Plinqo by Code Smith!

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Tony Sneed

A lot of people have lingering doubts about whether to use LINQ to SQL for real-world applications, especially since Microsoft has left it to languish in favor of the new version of the Entity Framework slated for release with .NET … Continue reading →

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Why Health Care is Broken

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Tony Sneed

Over the past few years it has become abundantly clear to me that the health care system in America is fundamentally broken. What we have tried to do as a country is build our health care system on capitalist principles. … Continue reading →

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The Cost of Obesity

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Tony Sneed

A recent study estimated that obesity costs Americans $147 billion per year, by causing four major diseases: heart disease, diabetes, cancer and stroke. A full one third of Americans are obese. Not a day goes by when I don’t see … Continue reading →

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More on Entity Framework 4.0

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Tony Sneed

DevelopMentor just published an article I wrote on What’s New and Cool in Entity Framework 4.0, where I explain the new support for POCO and n-tier applications in EF 4.0.  Enjoy. Tony

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Top Ten New Features in Entity Framework 4.0

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Tony Sneed

The Entity Framework team at Microsoft has been extremely busy this past year to get a new version of the Entity Framework out the door. The first release (which shipped last summer with .NET 3.5 SP1) generated a fair amount … Continue reading →

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Smarter Tx Promotion with SQL Server 2008

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Tony Sneed

A while ago I blogged on a gotcha to watch out for when using System.Transactions with SQL Server 2005. Basically, if you open a second connection to SQL Server from inside a using block in which you create a new … Continue reading →

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Entity Framework Preview

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Tony Sneed

The Entity Framework team just released CTP 1 of the Entity Framework for .NET 4.0 Beta 1. The next version of the Entity Framework has a bunch of cool features a lot of have been clamoring for, such as support … Continue reading →

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LINQ to SQL: It Lives! (sort of)

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Tony Sneed

A lot of people are confused about whether or not they should use LINQ to SQL, because the word on the street is that Microsoft decided to kill it in favor of another ORM stack, the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The … Continue reading →

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