Happy New Year Everybody! Well, it’s been a surprisingly busy time for me, and this (naturally) translates into great things for you, the reader! You can expect some new entries on Team Foundation Server 2010 (Beta 2) as well as detailed notes on the next revision of the ADO Entity […]
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If you’ve been following the blog for a while now, you’ll know there are two main database schemas I tend to work with for Proof of Concept (PoC) applications, movies and records (vinyl LPs). Last year I was building an Entity Framework based PoC using a schema made up of […]
Hi All, This is just a quick post to advertise some of the high hopes I have for the upcoming Entity Framework v4 which will ship with Visual Studio 2010. The next version is bumped from v2 to v4 (in order to align with the version of the .Net Framework) […]
Over the weekend I’ve been working on a query abstraction approach which is interoperable with both LINQ to SQL and the ADO.net Entity Framework (using IQueryable) – with some minor modifications to suit each data model. As I was putting this to use on a somewhat semi-realistic search pane, I […]
Since the ADO Entity Framework was launched last year (as RTM) I’ve been trying to find an excuse to start using it for more than fluff demos. Unfortunately the opportunity for real use has not been forthcoming, so I decided to put together a personal project which would allow me […]
Hi, so this is the next logical sequence in my series on the ADO Entity Framework. If you read the previous article/entry you would be familiar with the replacement of ugly foreign key data with nice friendly text (or whatever). This time, we’re going to look at how you can […]
Here are some lessons learned from using the Entity Framework and the EntityDataSource provider in ASP.net development. Edit: Hi Everyone, I’ve been getting some traffic on this topic and I realise I’ve only written half the details (there is more to come). Please bare with me and I’ll aim to […]
Sometimes you have to wonder how people miss things.. Something simple like: string movieTitle = "Ghostbusters";var movies = from mov in mdb.Movie where mov.Title.Contains(movieTitle) select mov; Fails with a nasty error: "The ntext and image data types cannot be used in WHERE, HAVING, GROUP BY, ON, or IN clauses, except […]
Hi Everyone, This is a small break in our scheduled programming (the SQL Server Data Services series) to point to a new blog post by the ADO Entity Framework team announcing some of their thoughts for the next edition. As you might be aware, the ADO Entity Framework shipped v1.0 […]
Hi all. So, if you haven’t heard about the new ADO.Net Entity Framework.. Well, you soon will! Here is a link to Microsoft’s official overview of ADO.Net EF (may be a little out of synch since this was published in 2006). Here’s another blogger’s perspective, comparing LINQ to SQL […]