RC of Entity Framework 4.1 (which includes EF Code First) by ScottGu's Blog

Last week the data team shipped the Release Candidate of Entity Framework 4.1.  You can learn more about it and download it here . EF 4.1 includes the new “EF Code First” option that I’ve blogged about several times in the past.  EF Code First...

VS 2010 SP1 and SQL CE by ScottGu's Blog

Last month we released the Beta of VS 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1).  You can learn more about the VS 2010 SP1 Beta from Jason Zander’s two blog posts about it, and from Scott Hanselman’s blog post that covers some of the new capabilities enabled with...

Top 10 Posts in 2010 by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

Blogging’s a lot of fun and a great way to share what you’ve learned. It’s also a great way to learn based upon comments people leave that help you see things in an entirely new way in some cases.  Since we’ve now moved on to 2011 (Happy New Year...

Class-Level Model Validation with EF Code First and ASP.NET MVC 3 by ScottGu's Blog

Earlier this week the data team released the CTP5 build of the new Entity Framework Code-First library.  In my blog post a few days ago I talked about a few of the improvements introduced with the new CTP5 build.  Automatic support for enforcing...
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Announcing Entity Framework Code-First (CTP5 release) by ScottGu's Blog

This week the data team released the CTP5 build of the new Entity Framework Code-First library.  EF Code-First enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data.  It enables you to: Develop without ever having to...
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The Weekly Source Code 56 - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM Interop by Scott Hanselman

Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit . It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the...
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Using EF “Code First” with an Existing Database by ScottGu's Blog

Last month I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option.  EF “code-first” enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data.  It enables you to: Work with data without ever having to...
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The Weekly Source Code 52 - You keep using that LINQ, I dunna think it means what you think it means. by Scott Hanselman

Remember good developers don't just write source code, they also READ it. You don't just become a great poet by writing lots of poems. Read and absorb as well. Do check out the Source Code category of my blog here , there's (as of today) 15...
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The Weekly Source Code 51 - Asynchronous Database Access and LINQ to SQL Fun by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code. That's the idea behind this series, " The Weekly Source Code ." You can certainly become a better programmer by writing code but I think good writers become better by reading...
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DevConnections Orlando Talks on Silverlight and LINQ/Entity Framework by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

I had a great time speaking at DevConnections in Orlando this year.  A lot of fun people were there and I had the opportunity to talk with several of them about some of the applications they were building.  As promised, here’s the code and slides...
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Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial by ScottGu's Blog

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now – announcement coming soon).  As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation...
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