LINQPad – New Features for Entity Framework
Published January 6th, 2010 Under Coding, Database | Leave a Comment
Tiw webcast shows some exciting new features that turn LINQPad into an essential tool for writing and performance-tuning Entity Framework queries.
Entity Framework Tips & Tricks
Published December 29th, 2009 Under Coding, Database | Leave a Comment
Developers discover a lot of behavior in the ADO.NET Entity Framework that is quite unexpected. Programming Entity Framework author, Julie Lerman, will help you avoid some surprises and show you tricks to make the most of Entity Framework. Learn how to provide default navigation property (foreign key) values, practical uses for Entity SQL, how to improve the performance of your LINQ and Entity SQL queries, combine Entities with .NET Generics to write reusable code and more.
ORM, EDM, ESQL, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities – Confused?
Published December 23rd, 2009 Under Coding, Database | Leave a Comment
Eric Nelson explains what are ORM, EDM, and ESQL, what is the difference between LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities, which one is going to be further developed by Microsoft in the future, accompanied by hands on demos showing how to use them.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ORM-LINQ-Entity-Framework-Eric-Nelson
Event Handling with Linq
Published December 9th, 2009 Under Coding, User Interface | Leave a Comment
Paul Batum shows how you can use Linq to handle Events in windows applications.
Subsonic Simple Repo 5 Minute Demo
Published August 21st, 2009 Under Coding, Database, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
SubSonic is A Super High-fidelity Batman Utility Belt that works up your Data Access (using Linq in 3.0), throws in some much-needed utility functions, and generally speeds along your dev cycle. There are a few ways to work with SubSonic 3.0. One of them is to tell it to get right out of your way – and that’s the point of the SimpleRepository. Many times code generation and configuration get in your way. If all you want is a DLL and pot to cook your data in – well this is for you.
http://subsonicproject.com/docs/Simple_Repo_5_Minute_Demo
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