Entity Framework v1 did not support a commonly implemented ORM feature called Lazy Loading. Entity Framework 4 adds that feature. In Beta 1 it was known…

This post is a follow-up on my series about validating business objects throughout different layers of a software system - domain, persistence, and…

Complex Types make it easier to work with objects, allowing the grouping of related properties in Entities and the reuse of these groupings across…

Anyway, I have been asked this one so many times lately that I felt a more public answer was needed. The short answer is: Mostly. Certainly it is good…

In this Issue: Rene Schulte, Jason Harper, Brad Abrams, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Jeff Wilcox, Fredrik Normén, Tim Heuer, Shawn Wildermuth, and Andrej…

In this Issue: African Geek, Alan Mendelevich, Jeff Wilcox, CorrinaB, Tim Heuer, Jeff Handley, Timmy Kokke, Cameron Albert, Antoni Dol, and Fredrik Normén.

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Andrej Tozon, Lee, Adam Kinney, Karl Shifflett, Andy Beaulieu, and Rob Houweling.

This series of posts discusses the use of an Aspect-oriented programming approach for implementing the validation part of a business domain, using the…

Automatic Null Checks I have written far too many null checks in my life. Why do we have even null values? They only seem to provoke a…

\Source: [https://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman\] Following on from the sample for processing Excel uploads with nServiceBus, I have a comparable…

Entity Framework 4 relies significantly on the Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) to generate code from the EDM.

I have been working with T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) lately thanks to the Entity Framework team moving their code generation model over to…

Code generation from the Entity Data Model (EDM) has changed significantly in version 4 of the Entity Framework. The product does retain a backwardly…

Silverlight 4 Overview Postings Every time there's a beta or a release I try a different way to get all the good stuff out. I waited until today, and am…

In this Issue: Rob Houweling, Michael Washington, Colin Eberhardt, Laurent Bugnion, Tomasz Janczuk, Jeremy Likness, and Andy Beaulieu.

Why does SubSonic’s SimpleRepository ‘Add<T>’ return a decimal instead of an int? (Part 2) Last time I was taking a look at SubSonic’s SimpleRepository…

This series of posts discusses the use of an Aspect-oriented programming approach for implementing the validation part of a business domain, using the…

Silverlight 4 Beta is out! Yes boys and girls, you heard that right!! This morning at PDC, Scott Guthrie announced the news.

When adding an Entity Data Model to a project you are given the option to: - Generate the Model from an existing database (SQL Server, Oracle etc) or -…

The problem is with the Empty-Null cases in the xpath expressions. Is it possible to separate all these cases in Expression shapes of the Orchestration…