I came across a bit of a glitch in using timestamps for checking concurrency violations in LINQ to SQL and thought I'd share. Say I've got a table like; create table Person ( id int identity primary key , firstName nvarchar(30), lastName nvarchar(30), timestamp ) so, we have a simple table that has a...
Julie's got a great post about when stored procedures execute when using LINQ to Entities . It made me think about LINQ to SQL where if I've got something like; using (NorthwindDataContext ctx = new NorthwindDataContext()) { var query = ctx.GetCustomersByCountry( "UK" ); // SQL Happens Here! foreach...
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.
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 at Southampton the week before so these...
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 and also because I didn't really understand...
Entity Framework Beta 3 is available along with a new Entity Designer (CTP 2) is out as well. These are for Visual Studio 2008 RTM and .NET Framework V3.5 RTM. Find blog posts up here; ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 Released! Entity Designer CTP2 with the full details but I like the sound of; Simpler...