this post is the first in a series about what's new in EF 6. great improvements are about to come with Entity Framework 6. it is a major release and the first one since EF become an open source. each post in the series will be dedicate to a single feature. this post will focus on a new EF a-sync...

Taking a look at how Entity Framework uses T4 Templates (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) when building out the entity model. We will first learn how EF is using the templates, we will then learn how to view and access these templates and finally we will take a look at how to modify these te...

Taking a look at how to use the Entity Framework via its database first design concepts. When building out an application which is based off of the Entity framework you have multiple options, you can either build your model off of your existing database or build your database of your existing mod...

Taking a look at how to use the Entity Framework via its model first design concepts. When building out an application which is based off of the Entity framework you have multiple options, you can either build your model off of your existing database or build your database of your existing model....

A Review on Programming Entity Framework Book.

There are generally three types of security in enterprise applications: 1. Role based security - Which actions can a user do - aka role-based access control 2. Entity level security - A user can only perform an Action on certain objects/data - aka row level security 3. Field level se...

Yesterday we released KiGG 3.0 and baselined the source code for version 3. No major changes in this release. We upgraded to ASP.Net MVC 2.0 on .Net 3.5 SP1 & VS2008.

I highly recommend this book. No further knowledge about Entity Framework is required. So you don’t have to know anything about EF1 in order to read and gain benefit of this book. Great effort spent on this book by the authors and the publisher. You’ll get a great value with reasonable amount of mon...

Fifth part is about 9:45 min in length. Part 5. Covers EDM -Entity Data Model- showing its elements (SSDL, CSDL & MSL). Also this screencast shows how to query your conceptual model using LINQ to Entities.

Fourth part is about 10 min in length. Covers how to implement table per hierarchy inheritance model (TPH) with Entity Framework 4.0

About Part 2 Second part is about 6:30 min in length. Covers Object Services and how to do CRUD operations using EF 4.0 object services. The demo explores EF change tracking capabilities. The demo also shows how to map return result of a stored procedure to existing entity in your EDM.

First part is an introduction to Entity Framework 4.0 with brief about its short history. This part also include a demo about new vs2010 designer enhancements for EF4. Also the screencast shows how to do a refactor to complex type using EDM designer.

This post is part of a series on customizing the Entity Framework T4 templates I have been using EF4 for a little while now, and have been taking advantage of the code-generation extensibility afforded to us by T4 templates. This series of posts will describe the enhancements I have made to the d...

Video on examples for unit testing EF apps. Entity framework has been considered hard to test, This video shows how to do it easily with Typemock Isolator. You can download the presentation and code and try it for yourselves.