Entity Framework
short answer: Quite probably, as SQL Azure is very similar to SQL Server longer answer: Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) that work with SQL Server are likely but not guaranteed to work with SQL Azure. The differences between the RDBMS versions are small – but may cause problems, for example in tools used to create the mapping between objects and tables or in generated SQL from the ORM which expects “certain things” :-) More specifically: ADO.NET Entity Framework / LINQ to Entities can be used with...
Posted On Monday, June 07, 2010 4:05 PM | Feedback (0)
I had a really fun evening doing “my final” EF 4.0 session last night (26th May 2010) at GL.NET based out of Gloucester (although secretly I made it into a IronRuby and Windows Azure session). They are a great crowd and Jimmy makes for a fantastic host + it is a very nice venue (Symantec offices in Gloucester, lots of parking, good room etc) + free pizza + free SWAG + trip to pub afterwards (the topics were very varied!). What more could you ask for? The next session is June 16th and will be on multi-tenanted...
Posted On Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:46 AM | Feedback (0)
[I will do some longer posts around my sessions when I get back from holiday next week] Big thanks to all those who attended my 3 sessions at TechDays this week (April 13th and 14th, 2010). I really enjoyed both days and watched some great session – my personal fave being the Silverlight/Expression session by my friend and colleague Mike Taulty. The following links should help get you up and running on each of the technologies. Entity Framework 4 Entity Framework 4 Resources http://bit.ly/ef4resources...
Posted On Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:41 PM | Feedback (0)
Time for another guest post (check out others in the series), this time bringing together the world of mocking with the world of Entity Framework. A big thanks to Moses for agreeing to do this. Unit Testing Entity Framework Dependent Code using TypeMock Isolator by Muhammad Mosa Introduction Unit testing data access code in my opinion is a challenging thing. Let us consider unit tests and integration tests. In integration tests you are allowed to have environmental dependencies such as a physical...
Posted On Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:07 PM | Feedback (0)
12 months back (today is March 15th 2010) on the 16th of March 2009 I created a poll on Entity Framework v1 – the marmite of ORMs? A quick poll…. Entity Framework v1 was getting a mixed reception at the time – I met developers who genuinely hated it and I met developers who were loving the productivity improvements they were seeing. There were definitely issues with v1, too many IMHO. Which is why the product team placed a huge effort on listening to the community to drive the feature set for v2...
Posted On Monday, March 15, 2010 5:03 PM | Feedback (1)
On Monday 15th Feb 2010 I gave an overview session on Entity Framework 4 for the Developers Group. A big thanks to those who attended and asked great questions. My slide deck from the session: Entity Framework 4 In Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 View more presentations from ericnelson. A related set of screenshots from the demos I gave (or at least, a similar set of demos I did in Oct 2009): Dev305 Entity Framework 4 Emergency Slides View more presentations from ericnelson. Related Links: 101 EF4 Resources...
Posted On Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:21 PM | Feedback (0)
Blatant repost alert from the ADO.NET team blog! But important IMHO. The Microsoft data team are looking for help to prioritize future work. Is there a feature that you’ve always wanted to have? Or a bug in VS2010 RC? Then provide feedback directly to the teams at the new Connect site. Including: ADO.NET Entity Framework WCF Data Services Thanks all...
Posted On Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:50 PM | Feedback (0)
I have just completed a first round of updates to my popular blog post from September Entity Framework 4.0 Resources – documentation links, best blog posts and more Pop a comment here or better still in the main post if I missed something cool! (Which no doubt I have) The following were added: Overview blog posts/articles What’s New in Entity Framework 4, Part 2: Modeling Changes (Nov/Dec 2009) Renovations to .NET 4.0's Entity Framework (Nov 2009) Entity Sequel (Dec 2009) 5 Steps to having a great...
Posted On Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:20 PM | Feedback (0)
This podcast was recorded at TechEd Europe in November 2009. I get a chance to sit down with Mike Flasko, Program Manager in the Data Services team. We had both presented on Entity Framework during the conference which is where we started the discussion before we moved on to talk about Data Servies and some of the announcements around Data Services, RIA and WCF which would be happening the following week at PDC. Definitely worth a listen (IMHO). Listen/Subscribe: Download/Play MSDN Flash Show 014...
Posted On Thursday, December 10, 2009 11:54 AM | Feedback (0)
Step 1 Install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 http://bit.ly/vs2010b2 TIP: This works great inside Windows Virtual PC (10MB download) on Windows 7 if you want to avoid using it on your main machine Step 2 Install ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 2 http://bit.ly/ef4ctp2 TIP: The CTPs give you additional functionality such as self tracking entities – which you need for N-Tier work Step 3 Install the beta of LINQPad for VS2010 Beta 2 http://linqpad.net/Beta.aspx TIP: I recommend...
Posted On Friday, December 04, 2009 9:32 AM | Feedback (0)
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