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ADO.NET Entity Framework: A Working Tutorial --- Part I

Introduction In this series of blog entries I’m going to take a look at some work I have been doing with the ADO.NET Entity Framework (AEF) (VS 2008, .Net 3.5), comparing it to LinqToSql, finding the odd bits that aren’t as obvious as they seem and ...[Read More]

Published: Jun-30-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Wellington Code Camp

It was a lot of fun doing a presentation at Code Camp in Wellington this weekend.  I think we all owe a big hand of applause to Ivan for all of his hard work.  I’m committed to getting up a online version of my talk (hopefully with a downloadable vi ...[Read More]

Published: Jun-16-09 | 0 Comments | 106 Links to this post

Code Camp Source Code

I’ll have a full follow-up article that will walk you thru my presentation at the Code Camp later in the week, but for now, you can download the source (and the PowerPoint, with my notes) here. ...[Read More]

Published: Jun-13-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Talking At Code Camp This Coming Weekend

I’ve been lucky enough to give talks to my local user group in the past, but this weekend is my first opportunity to give a talk to a larger more national group.  I’ll be a speaker at the Wellington Code Camp conference being held this weekend, I’m ...[Read More]

Published: Jun-11-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Chrome And Bing

So this past week and a half I have been on a personal experiment.  I decided to treat Google like I was a god (which those who know me well will tell you is not an unusual state of mind for me): What I give with one hand, I take away with the other ...[Read More]

Published: Jun-10-09 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post