Category Archives: Entity Framework

Entity Framework FAQs website moved to Technet wiki

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Rick Saling

The move was completed yesterday. The Frequently Asked Questions are now at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/entity-framework-faq.aspx Feel free to browse, and, since it’s a wiki, to contribute. If you have ideas for new questions, you can even add them to the site yourself, … Continue reading →

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Entity Framework FAQs Moving

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Rick Saling

We have decided to use Microsoft’s Technet Wiki site to host the Entity Framework FAQs web site. There are two main reasons for this: the current build process for the site is difficult to understand (for me at least), but … Continue reading →

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SQL Azure and Entity Framework Connection Fault Handling

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Rick Saling

There’s a great blog posting by James Podgorski on the MSDN App Fabric Customer Advisory Team blog site, called SQL Azure and Entity Framework Connection Fault Handling.  James provides some background, and then goes through three scenarios, with code samples, … Continue reading →

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Erratic Blogging

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Rick Saling

Seems to be an occupational hazard for some folks at MSFT. I start out swearing I’ll blo… (cont) http://deck.ly/~Vy9NG

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Entity Framework 4.1 Released

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Rick Saling

Entity Framework 4.1 released on 4/12 http://bit.ly/dL4Ffi Our docs are under “Getting Started” -> MSDN Documentation

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Updated Version of “What is Entity Framework”?

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Rick Saling

I’ve received feedback that lets me correct a few errors in my original draft that I posted (https://ricksaling.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/entity-framework-code-first-release/). I’ve incorporated most of the feedback, so here’s the result. This topic is designed to answer two questions: What is Entity Framework, … Continue reading →

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Entity Framework FAQs Web Page

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Rick Saling

There is a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) web page for Entity Framework that has a lot of great information, at http://www.ef-faq.org . It’s a good place to go when you are first getting started with Entity Framework, since the questions you … Continue reading →

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Entity Framework (Code-First Release)

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Rick Saling

This is a preview of the top-level MSDN topic for the new “Code-First” release of Entity Framework. The goal of this topic is to give a very high-level overview of Entity Framework, and to mention briefly what’s new (there is … Continue reading →

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Entity Framework Getting Started Videos

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Rick Saling

Videos are a great way to get started with a new technology! If done well, you can just sit back and watch things happen. Many people rate videos as one of their favorite ways to learn things. Personally, I like … Continue reading →

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Entity Framework Feature CTP5: our MSDN Writing Starts

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Rick Saling

The latest Community Technology Preview (CTP5) has been released! Here are several posts about it from the ADO.Net team blog: EF Feature CTP5 Released! EF Feature CTP5: Code First Walkthrough EF Feature CTP5: Model & Database First with DbContext EF … Continue reading →

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