David Hayden shows how the support for System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations in DefaultModelBinder works in ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Preview 1.
Julie Lerman talks about code only support and query improvements in EF 4.0.
Alex James talks about structural annotations.
Bart DeSmet has an excellent introductory post about MEF.
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In the latest MSDN Magazine, David Simmons talks about N-Tier Application Patterns and Tim Mallalieu talks about Data Access Architecture Best Practices.
Simon Seagal has an interesting post about fetching strategies in EF 4.0. Also Alex James has a nice post about implementing fetching strategies.
Mattieu Mezil show how to use TypeDescriptors to make FK work in EF 1.0.
In his 30th tip, Alex James shows how to use database functions in EF 1.0 and EF 4.0.
The ADO.NET team presents the improvements to the generated SQL for Entity Framework.
Phil Haacked shows how to focus in View pages on presentation concerns by moving Page declaration to web.config. He also shows a prototype of default templated views that we might have in the future bits of MVC.
Kirill Osenkov points out the C# compiler team blogs.
Chris Burrows has a nice post about dynamic base classes.
Eric Lippert has another bunch of excellent articles:
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The learning resources for C# 4.0 proved to very useful for many people so I thought about doing the same thing for EF 4.0.
http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/06/22/announcing-entity-framework-feature-ctp-1.aspx
http://blog.tonysneed.com/?p=161
http://www.develop.com/entityframework4
http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/important-entity-framework-query-improvements-for-net-4-0/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee236639.aspx
http://mosesofegypt.net/post/Entity-Framework-4-Persistence-Ignorance-First-Look.aspx
http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/a-look-at-lazy-loading-in-ef4/
http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2009/07/27/entity-framework-40-improvements/
http://www.simonsegal.net/blog/2009/07/29/entity-framework-40-and-fetching-strategies/
Tip 30 – How to use a custom database function
http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/05/14/sneak-preview-model-defined-functions.aspx
http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/ef4-model-defined-functions-level-1-amp-2/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd456821(VS.100).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee236639.aspx
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/2009/05/23/model-first-in-entity-framework-4.aspx
http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/ef4-ndash-new-properties-for-entity-properties/
http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/archive/2009/06/10/code-only.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/archive/2009/08/03/code-only-enhancements.aspx
http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/a-big-step-for-stored-procedures-in-ef4/
http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/ef-table-splitting-ndash-the-opposite-of-entity-splitting/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee236639.aspx
http://romiller.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/51/Default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee321569.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee321569.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2009/07/11/entity-framework-4-0-how-to-use-pocos.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee236639.aspx
http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/customizing-edm-code-gen-in-ef4/
http://msmvps.com/blogs/matthieu/archive/2009/06/26/poco-t4.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/07/22/customizing-t4-templates.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/archive/2009/07/20/tip-27-how-to-implement-beforesave-validation.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/archive/2009/03/16/foreign-keys-in-the-entity-framework.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/archive/2008/12/02/pluralization.aspx
Tip 32 – How to create a database from SSDL – EF 4 only
Tip 31 – How to compose L2O and L2E queries
Tip 30 – How to use a custom database function
Tip 29 – How to avoid LazyLoad or Load() reader issues
Tip 28 – How to implement an Eager Loading strategy
Tip 27 – How to Implement BeforeSave Validation
Tip 26 – How to avoid database queries using Stub Entities
Tip 25 – How to get Entities by key the easy way
Tip 24 – How to get the ObjectContext from an Entity
Tip 23 – How to fake Enums in EF 4
Tip 22 – How to make Include really Include
Tip 21 – How to use the Single() operator – EF 4.0 only
Tip 20 – How to deal with Fixed Length Keys
Tip 19 – How to use Optimistic Concurrency with the Entity Framework
Tip 18 – How to decide on a lifetime for your ObjectContext
Tip 17 – How to do one step updates with AttachAsModified(..)
Tip 16 – How to mimic .NET 4.0’s ObjectSet<T> today
Tip 15 – How to avoid loading unnecessary Properties
Tip 14 – How to cache Entity Framework Reference Data
Tip 13 – How to Attach an Entity the easy way
Tip 12 – How to choose an Inheritance Strategy
Tip 11 – How to avoid Relationship Span
Tip 10 – How to understand Entity Framework jargon
Tip 9 – How to delete an object without retrieving it
Tip 8 – How to write ‘WHERE IN’ style queries using LINQ to Entities
Tip 7 – How to fake Foreign Key Properties in .NET 3.5 SP1
Tip 6 – How and when to use eager loading
Tip 5 – How to restrict the types returned from an EF Query
Tip 4 – Conceptual Schema Definition Language Rules
Tip 3 – How to get started with T4
Tip 2 – Entity Framework Books
Tip 1 – How to sort Relationships in the Entity Framework
Enjoy,
Bogdan
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Brad Abrams has a series of posts about building a business application with RIA Services and Silverlight 3.0:
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CoNatural announces that both their DAL and asynchronous framework have been published to CodePlex. They have also uploaded a Visual Studio plugin for migrating stored procedures as CoNatural commands.
Justin Etheredge has a nice post explaining why LINQ is not LINQ to SQL.
Simon Segal shows an approach to be used in resolving a types property name using strongly typed expressions.
Kirill Osenkov presents his Undo/Redo framework.
John Robbins shows how historical debugging and multithreaded debugging work.
Channel 9 host a new episode about creating extensible applications with MEF.
Jimmy Bogard shows how he does MVC in his current project.
Chad Myers explains how Front Controller should be implemented in MVC.
Julie Lerman talks about model-defined functions and why work with ObjectStateEntities instead of the objects directly.
Matthieu Mezil writes about POCO T4 templates.
Alex James continues his series of tips showing how to avoid database queries using Stub Entities.
Matthieu Mezil show how to implement EF4.0 IObjectSet<T> methods in EF1.0.
Jonathan Carter shows how the new Sys.Data.DataContext and Sys.Data.AdoNetDataContext classes can be used to consume server side data from a WCF/ASMX or ADO.NET Data Service and how the change tracking and data persistence functionality of DataContext works.
Maarten Balliauw shows how to implement application-wide action filters.
David Hayden shows the MvcContrib Grid and Pager helpers.
Simone Ince shows how to detect a Server.Transfer call.
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Thomas Marquardt has an excellent post about the correct use of System.Web.HttpResponse.Redirect.
Scott Hanselman has a great post about migrating an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 running on .NET 3.5 to Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1.
Moses talks about integrating MySQL support through EF in Kigg.
3 new webcasts about Visual Studio 2010 are available on Channel 9:
Daniel Moth talks about the parallel stacks feature.
Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 are out there! Go and get it! More details from Somasegar, ScottGu and Nikhil Kothari.
Sebastian Burckhardt talks about Chess;s data race detection and ChessBoard on Channel 9.
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Oleg show how to use T4 in order to improve the model-driven approach for LINQ to SQL applications.
Danny Simmons shares two interesting material from TechEd: POCO and EntityFramework 4.0 features and his sample code showing some useful tips for creating n-tier applications with EntityFramework shipped with .NET 3.5 SP1.
The ADO.NET team has an excellent post about how POCO works in EF 4.0.
Alex James continues the tips on EF:
Daniel Moth has three new articles about parallel programming:
John Robbins has an excellent post about PDB files.
Scott Hanselman continues the posts about the new features of C# 4.0 talking about the dynamic keyword and embedded interop assemblies.
Rob Conery continues the Kona experiment approaching BDD.
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Brad Abrams announces the new RIA Services May Preview which includes some new features among whom I personally find interesting the new LINQ to SQL Domain Provider. I am looking forward to see the first NHibernate Domain Provider ;).
Geneva Beta 2 was announced at TechEd.
Vittorio also announces the release of a Identity Developer Training Kit.
If you want to learn more about Geneva, go check out the 4 videos on Channel 9.
Eric Lippert has an excellent article on the use of reserved keywords and contextual keywords such as var, dynamic during the preprocessing phase of the compiling process.
Luis continues his series on multithreading with a new one on synchronization. The complete list of posts is:
The ADO.NET Team published two new posts talking about the migration from IPOCO to POCO in EF 2.0 and the main scenarios and patterns for the next release shipping in Visual Studio 2010.
Jimmy Bogart has a great article about making AutoMapper more IoC friendly. He shows how AutoMapper plays nicely together with StructureMap.
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Alex James continues his tips series showing how we can add new entities and modifying them in a more elegant way. Another great tip from him is about the lifetime for ObjectContext.
Sometimes the terms usually used by different methodologies can be confusing. Scott has a nice post in which he presents the terms mapping from Scrum to traditional Agile methodologies.
Tom has a nice article about using EF stored procedures that don’t return tables in a RIA solution with Silverlight.
Kazi Mansur Rashid has a cool article about a custom ActionFilter that allow automatic page redirects on the client after a specified inactivity period. He also has two great articles about building a custom jQuery script manager similar to the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX’s ScriptManager.
Yves continues his DDD tutorial talking about identifying the right aggregate roots as conceptual contours, keeping low coupling in classes, closures of operations as a way to limit the scope of a class and about how declarative design can be leveraged using several programming techniques.
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Elisa Flasko announces the release of a beta version of ADO.NET Entity Framework provider for Oracle.
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