Entity Framework June CTP

Entity Framework CTP was just released.  It contains a large number of new features, including enumerations support and spatial types.  There are also important optimization improvements, such as automatically compiled queries and SQL generation improvements.  You can read more details here. Enjoy.

Correcting Sorting Issues in Entity Framework Repository

I posted earlier on how to implement repository pattern using Entity Framework Code First, while removing a dependency on IQueryable interface.  I identified an issue that still existed in that code related to sorting.  Sorting is a tricky part because SortBy method on IQueryable needs to have two generic parameters: item type and property that …

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ESRI Developer Meet-up Keynote

As I already mentioned, I delivered keynote at ESRI Developers Meet-up in Atlanta last week.  I wanted to post my short speech, as it expresses some very important points.  I talked about Microsoft developer landscape and importance of learning.  Here is the speech.  Please let me know what you think. ESRI Key note My name …

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Conclusion On Repository Pattern with Entity Framework

I have written a number of posts on this pattern lately. One thing that I used in some of them is return IQueryable. The idea behind this is to limit the number of Select methods to one in your repository. This goal is achieved by allowing calling code to append where or order by information …

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