I participated in Code Mastery event yesterday. The event was put on by my company Magenic as an all day free community training event. It was all about CSLA. The author if this widely used framework, Rocky Lhotka himself was in attendance. He presented on two topics. Yours truly spoke on CSLA and XAML technologies. …
Following the roadmap of my newest CodePlex project EF Code First Extras, I implemented support for default values as part of code-free migrations of SQL Server. Default values is something that is necessary in order to support migrations. If you are adding a new column to the table that does not allow nulls and you …
Today I issued an update to my Code Plex project that will contain a number of extras for Entity Framework Code First based applications. You can find the project here. I added repository project to the solution, containing base repository classes. I had time analyze the problem some more and decided to make a few …
I recently posted on my intentions to create a migration solution for Entity Framework Code First using Red Gate tools. The initial alpha version 0.9 is now live on CodePlex. Here is how you would use the product. You have to obtain a license to Red Gate SQL Comparison SDK. If you simply would like …
I have been thinking for a little while about the future of Entity Framework, feature set on the horizon, and trying to ascertain where I would like to concentrate my next “free time” project. If you have not been keeping up with Entity Framework, please read the last few posts on the Entity Framework design …
In this post I will explore a possibility of talking to a WCF REST Service from a Windows Phone 7 device. This should complete my posts related to consuming and working with data on Windows Phone 7. I am going to start with creating a WCF REST Service. First of all, I am going to …
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.
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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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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I am doing two talks at CodeStock event on Saturday, June 2011. Tomorrow in other words . I am talking on two topics. Building ASP.NET MVC 3.0 Applications with Razor View Engine and EF Code First. Using Code First (Code Only) approach with Entity Framework Since I would like to share my slides and sample …