There has been a lot of information being passed around recently about the changes being introduced in the second major release of Microsoft’s Entity Framework, so I thought it might be a good idea to get a list of articles together on the subject that I have found useful. If you know of any more …
Category Archive: .Net
Aug
11
Windows 7 Upgrade Corrupts / Removes .Net 4.0 and VS 2010 Betas
The other day I performed an upgrade of Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 RTM using the workaround mentioned here, as this is not an option straight out of the box. I think I may have just stumbled across one of the reasons why. I have just noticed that my HTC Touch Pro hadn’t picked …
Aug
07
BOOK REVIEW: Professional Refactoring in C# and ASP.NET (Wrox)
Title: Professional Refactoring in C# and ASP.Net Publisher: Wrox Author: Danijel Arsenovski Even the most experienced developers can sometimes be found sat staring at their monitor trying to decide which way to implement a solution. Asking a fellow developer for input will probably result in more avenues to consider as opposed to narrowing down the …
Jul
26
Expression Web 3 Released
Expression Web 3, part of Expression Studio from Microsoft has now been released and is available for purchase / download. MSDN license holders should find Expression Studio including Expression Web 3 available for download now from the MSDN web site, whilst everyone else can take advantage of free trials (the Expression Web 3 trail can be …
Jul
01
Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Uk Lunch Event in July
UPDATE: Expression Web 3, Sliverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 have now been released, which you can read about in my post, “Expression Web 3 Released” here. I received an email this morning inviting me to an exclusive launch event for Silverlight 3 and Expression 3. Unfortunately I am out of the country, but the launch …
Jun
29
BOOK REVIEW: ASP.Net MVC 1.0, Problem – Design – Solution (Wrox)
Title: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Problem – Design – Solution Publisher: Wrox Authors: Nick Beradi, Al Katawazi, Marco Bellinaso It seems that recently every man and his dog have been talking about ASP.Net MVC and the many advantages it brings along with it. I have to admit that, up until now, I have not really looked …
May
20
TUTORIAL: Entity Framework v2.0 – Model First using Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0
Following up on my recent post about the improvements to the Entity Framework in .Net 4.0 this is the first in a series of posts examining some of the new features and showing you how to put some of them into practice. In this post I am going to look at one of the most …
May
14
Visual Studio 2010 Beta Release Next Week…..Maybe.
Many people, myself included were gvery exicited this week as we were expecting the release of Vsiaul Studio 2010 Beta from TechEd, however, now Mary J Foley has posted on her blog stating that she believes that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 will be released next week. Although this is nothing concrete, it certainly seems …
May
13
Entity Framework Improvements in .Net 4.0 – Summary & Links
I have used the entity framework in a few projects using .Net 3.5, but we were promised that there was much more to come in the next version which is shipping with .Net 4.0 and with quite a few announcements recently from the ADO.NET Team, I thought I would summarise and provide some links (at …
May
11
Watch TechEd Keynote Live (10am PST – 6pm GMT)
Just to let you know that, like me, you can watch the keynote at TechEd live at 6pm GMT (10am PST). Excitement seems to be building as to the possible arrival of Visual Studio 2010 beta! You can catch it all here http://www.msteched.com/online/home.aspx Technorati Tags: teched, vs2010