Category Archives: Technical

When I teach my DevelopMentor course on Entity Framework 4.0 and WCF Data Services, I use the Express Edition of SQL Server 2008 R2, but I have need for the SQL Profiler tool, which comes only with the full version … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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.