Thanks to everyone who came out to our CMAP presentation last week! Despite being Election Day, we had a packed house with almost 70 people including a large number of kids. My son loved having the clip-on microphone and it was great having such an enthusiastic audience. All code samples and PowerPoint can be found here ......
Now that Azure supports .NET Framework 4.5, you can use all the latest and greatest available features. A common scenario is to be able to use Entity Framework Code First Migrations with a SQL Database in Azure. Prior to Code First Migrations, Entity Framework provided database initializers. While convenient for demos and prototypes, database initializers weren’t useful for much beyond that because, if you delete and re-create your entire database when the schema changes, you lose all of your operational ......