Hidden Gems - Not the same old 3.5 SP1 post

submitted by crpietschmann 6 days, 6 hours ago

hanselman.com — Folks were hassling me in the comments for not posting the picosecond that .NET 3.5 SP1 came out (or, as I like to call it, .NET 3.6 - although the bosses really don't like that). read more...

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ALT.NET Podcast 8 - EF Vote of No Confidence (part 2 of Episode 7)

published 28 days, 15 hours ago, submitted by powerrush 28 days, 17 hours ago

altnetpodcast.com — In this episode Jeremy Miller and Ward Bell (from IdeaBlade) discuss the Vote of No Confidence on Microsoft's Entity Framework and what it means for the Alt.NET and .NET communities read more...

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Paging and sorting the GridView control wih Entity Framework N Layer

emir.com.mx — Entity Framework is the best alternative of Microsoft for mapper a relational database to objects, and is already a very complete support in ASP.NET for populate the GridView control and enable the paging and sorting features directly by LinqDatasource object,but to use this alternative not have the chance to decouple the linq query in a business rules layer separated, which can be a problem if we have those requirements. The paging mut be done in the database for a more efficient query. read more...

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I'm not a real world developer

lostechies.com — An assessment of the responses to the Entity Framework "Vote of No Confidence". read more...

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NHIbernate 2.0 Goes Beta 1 after Microsoft ‘Linq to Entities’ receives

published 1 month, 20 days ago, submitted by dcarr 1 month, 20 days ago

damon.agilefactor.com — The first official beta for NHibernate 2.0 was released today. This comes on the heels of the damaging ‘boycott’ of the Microsoft ‘Linq to Entities’ upcoming release, which was anticipated to be a serious competitor to NHibernate. LAST MINUTE UPDATE FROM THE NHIBERNATE TEAM There has been a change in how NHibernate is packaged as the core and contrib aspects now have dedicated locations. Since NHibernate 2.0 Alpha 1, ONLY THE CORE of the project is included at the link above. The Contrib Projects are now in a dedicated location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhcontrib There are a few new projects that are essential to investigate for your needs (for example the Burrow project). Also be sure to visit the wiki for these significant projects: http://nhcontrib.wiki.sourceforge.net See the end of this post for a partial list of these contrib efforts. The team at domain.dot.net has been working with 2.0.X since the first alpha, and following the progress of the trunk. In our opinion this beta has the high quality of prior betas and we recommend it for non-critical systems immediately as your risk policy allows. We’re working on a more detailed analysis coming soon on some of the key improvements. To download the code direct from the trunk use this SVN URL: https://nhibernate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nhibernate This is no minor update, as with this release they will align with the widely used and praised ‘Hibernate 3.2’ for Java. Here is a listing of the planned new features which are represented to varying degrees of complexness in this beta: read more...

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Difference between LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework

dotnethitman.spaces.live.com — LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework have a lot in common, but each have features targeting different scenarios. read more...

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Why use the Entity Framework?

submitted by Setsuko 3 months, 1 day ago

blogs.msdn.com — There are a number of places where you can read an introduction to the Entity Framework, listen to a podcast about it, or watch a screen cast or video of an interview. Even with these various resources, though, there are so many different data access technologies out there that it's not uncommon for me to get the question: Why should I use the Entity Framework? Or what differentiates it from other options like just using ADO.Net SqlClient and friends, LINQ to SQL or something like nHibernate? I like the second question better, because the truth is that different problems merit different solutions. read more...

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Entity Framework metadata deployment

ondrejsv.com — Did you know that you can easily embed Entity Framework metadata as assembly resources or that you can use ASP.NET tilde prefix to specify path to metadata? read more...

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