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OData Slides from the NxtGen User Group Festival

I did a short session on the Open Data Protocol (OData) last week at the NxtGen User Group and I thought I’d share the slides here. There are quite a few builds/animations in that slide-deck so I’d suggest that downloading it will produce a better experience...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 11:48 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, ADO.NET, WebServices, WCF, EntityFramework, DataServices, NETFramework4, VisualStudio

Astoria Online/Offline

Tantalising post from the Astoria team.

Published Thu, Oct 23 2008 2:37 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, XML, WebServices, SQLServer, EntityFramework, DataAccess, DataServices

Added (Updated) ADO.NET Data Services Videos to C9

I produced a new set of short videos around ADO.NET Data Services and dropped them on to Channel 9. You can find them here; http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/UK and that list will grow as time goes in ( specifically, it'll grow if I can get the publishing system...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2008 4:00 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EntityFramework, DataAccess, DataServices

On Entity Framework, Concurrency

This is similar but not at all identical to this post about LINQ to SQL because it's using a different framework and that has different capabilities. Someone mailed and asked how we can detect concurrency problems with Entity Framework in order to ensure that...

Published Wed, Jul 2 2008 2:22 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EntityFramework, DataAccess

Entity Framework - Timestamps and Concurrency

Someone asked me today how you'd go about ensuring that timestamp columns in your database tables show up in your Entity Framework EDMX file with a Concurrency=Fixed attribute on them. That is - it's very likely that the timestamps are there on the table to...

Published Thu, Jun 26 2008 9:30 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: ADO.NET, EntityFramework

Entity Framework Talk at Oracle .NET SIG

Thanks a lot to the people who came along to my Entity Framework talk at the Oracle and .NET Special Interest Group in London today. As promised, I've uploaded the slides in PPTX and PDF format if you need them for anything.

Published Thu, Apr 24 2008 10:10 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: LINQ, ADO.NET, EntityFramework, DataAccess

Entity Framework Talk at VBUG Bristol

Thanks to the people who came along to my talk on Entity Framework at VBUG in Bristol yesterday. I promised that I'd make the slides available and they can be found here for download in PPTX format and PDF format . This was more or less the same talk as I delivered...

Published Wed, Apr 23 2008 2:45 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, LINQ, ADO.NET, EntityFramework

Entity Framework Talk at NxtGen Southampton

Thanks a lot to the guys that run NxtGen Southampton and the attendees who came along to my talk on the ADO.NET Entity Framework this evening . I really enjoyed it and hope that you enjoyed it too if you came along - the venue was really interesting ( in what...

Published Thu, Apr 17 2008 2:25 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: EntityFramework

Entity Framework - Serializing Graphs of Entities

Julie points to Danny and Danny points to the next CTP of Entity Framework - if you're interested in serializing the entities that Entity Framework returns back to you then you'll be interested in this; http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/2008/03/28/HallelujahEntityGraphsWillBeXMLSerializable...

Published Fri, Mar 28 2008 5:49 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EntityFramework, DataAccess

DevWeek Talk - Understanding ADO.NET Entity Framework

I did a talk down at DevWeek this afternoon about ADO.NET Entity Framework. Whilst it was a small room, it was full and I had a great time - hopefully if you attended then you enjoyed it too and got something useful out of it. Thanks for all the questions ...

Published Thu, Mar 13 2008 12:22 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: ADO.NET, EntityFramework, DataAccess

ADO.NET Data Services - Identity columns and id values on the client

Someone asked me about this so I thought I'd share here. The question was around how you can work with database generated values and have them returned to the client after the insert. My experiment ran like this. I created a table; create table test ( id int...

Published Wed, Mar 12 2008 10:29 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: ADO.NET, EntityFramework, DataAccess, DataServices

ADO.NET Entity Framework - QueryViews, Inline Functions in SSDL

I have a mail from Tim on the EF team that I've had for a little while. I'd asked a question about mapping and he'd given me an answer saying something like "Oh, you could always do X, Y, Z" and I'd left this mail in my inbox for a while because I've been distracted...

Published Fri, Feb 8 2008 5:00 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: LINQ, ADO.NET, SQLServer, EntityFramework, DataAccess

ADO.NET Data Services - Screecasts

I made a few more videos; ADO.NET Data Services - Querying with LINQ ADO.NET Data Services - Query Interceptors ADO.NET Data Services - Service Operations to go with these videos . Note, there are some "technical difficulties" at the moment in getting some...

Published Fri, Jan 25 2008 7:55 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: ADO.NET, EntityFramework, DataAccess

Entity Framework Links (and one other)

Entity Framework Toolkits & Extras How Does The Entity Designer Generate Code? How To Extract CSDL from EDMX Oh...and I also encountered this; http://www.fishticuffs.co.uk/ Which Mike used to slap me around the face with a big fish - try it :-)

Published Fri, Jan 25 2008 1:36 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: ADO.NET, EntityFramework

ADO.NET Data Services - Screencasts

I made a few videos about Data Services. I have plans to make a few more as well but (as always :-)) I've got distracted by something else so, for the meantime; ADO.NET Data Services - Surfacing Data ADO.NET Data Services - Querying with URI's ADO.NET Data...

Published Thu, Jan 17 2008 5:06 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, EntityFramework, DataAccess, DataServices