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OData Visualizer Extension Yesterday I wrote about VS2010 extension manager . One of the great extensions that you can download and use is the OData Visualizer . The OData Visualizer helps us to get a visual graph of the OData Protocol ’s types, properties, associations, and other aspects of the EDM which you get from an OData metadata endpoint. Installing OData Visualizer Installing the OData Visualizer is very easy. Go to your Extension Manager and search for OData Visualizer in the online gallery...
VS2010 Extension Manager One of the great features in VS2010 is the extension manager . In last DevAcademy4 conference I talked about it a little in my session and showed an extension that I use. Lets see what is it all about. Using The Extension Manager The extension manager in VS2010 is a manager that help to manage and discover extensions to VS2010 . In order to use it we only need to go to the Tools menu and choose to use the Extension Manager menu item. The following figure shows how to...
DevAcademy4 Has Left the Building Today I attended the DevAcademy4 conference. The day started for me at 0700 when all the lecturers for the conference got together for a morning briefing. After that I went to a nice breakfast which was served in the Avenue hall for all the attendees. After the keynotes session which was great and included a laptop giveaway for one of the attendees, I went to prepare for my session about Entity Framework Evolution in .Net Framework 4 . In that point I want to thank...
EF Evolution in .Net Framework 4 On next Monday I’m going to give a session about EF4 in the DevAcademy4 conference. The session will provide you details about why you will want EF in your application, which development approaches EF provides and how to apply them and the major tooling and functionality enhancements. If you are interested in the subject go to the DevAcademy4 web site for more details. Meet you there!
Entity Framework Evolution in .NET 4 at DevAcademy4 As I wrote yesterday DevAcademy4 is coming next month. My part in the conference will be a breakout session on EF4 . In the session we will explore the major changes that EF4 offers and how they can contribute to develop better data access layers. There are other great sessions in the conference which you can review from here . See you there!
Developer Academy 4 is Coming The biggest Israeli .Net developers conference is coming. Today the conference site of Developer Academy 4 was launched and you can sign in to the conference from here . You can also register as a fan in Facebook from here for online updates. This year the conference will be focusing on Visual Studio 2010 , Windows Azure and Silverlight . There are going to be many breakout sessions and also mini sessions which will include only demos. The conference will occur in March...
Get Ready for Sela SDP Conference The PDC conference is over. A new conference is on the way. The SDP conference is going to happen between the 27 to 30 of December. In that conference we ( Sela Group ) are going to to share the future technologies including the ones that where exposed in the Microsoft PDC . In the conference I’m going to have a session with Bnaya Eshet on ADO.NET Entity Framework Evolution in .NET 4.0 . If you want to hear where EF is heading, this is the place to be...
Execute T-SQL Statements in Entity Framework 4 In this post I’m going to show a new Entity Framework 4 feature that enable us to execute T-SQL from the ObjectContext directly to the database. Executing T-SQL Statements from ObjectContext One of the new improvements in EF4 is the ability to execute T-SQL store queries and commands. This ability enable the EF developer to execute T-SQL directly against the database. This ability should only be used in cases that Entity Framework doesn’t support something...
ADO.NET Entity Framework Session at Microsoft A few months ago I wrote about a session I’m supposed to do on ADO.NET Entity Framework at Microsoft Israel . This is a reminder for that session which will take place on October 19 at Microsoft Ra’anana . In the session I’ll introduce Entity Framework and talk about how to use it. I’m also going to dedicate the end of the session for EF4 and show some of the features it include like POCO, Model-Defined Functions and more. If you are interested to hear...
Entity SQL User-Defined Functions in Entity Framework 4 Continuing the tour about the new features in EF4 , the next stop is the new user-defined function capability of Entity SQL . Entity SQL User-Defined Functions There are two kinds of user-defined functions in EF4 : Functions that are being defined as part of the conceptual model Functions that are being defined inline within a query You should use the Entity SQL user-defined functions when you want to encapsulate commonly used Entity SQL inside...
Calling Database Functions in LINQ to Entities in Entity Framework 4 Another new feature in EF4 is the new SqlFunctions class. In this post I’ll explain what is SqlFunctions class and how to use it in LINQ to Entities queries. The SqlFunctions Class The SqlFunctions is a new class in EF4 . It contains methods that expose SQL Server functions to use inside your LINQ to Entities queries. When you use SqlFunctions methods the corresponding database functions are being executed. This feature is...
Model First in Entity Framework 4 One of the new features of EF4 is the ability to generate a database and the SSDL and MSL that correspond to a provided model. In this feature we can start building our conceptual model first and then generate all the other parts of the EDM according to it. In this post I’ll introduce the model first feature. Generating a Database from a Given Conceptual Model One thing that was missing (in my opinion) in the first release of EF was the ability to start from a conceptual...
Pluralize or Singularize Generated Object Names Checkbox in Entity Framework 4 Creating entities with pluralize or singular object names was one of the missing features in EF V1 . Like LINQ to SQL now EF4 also has a feature that enables to pluralize or singularize the created objects automatically. You have the choice whether to enable it or not by a new checkbox in the EDM Wizard . The Pluralize or Singularize Generated Object Names Checkbox The first thing that you notice when you create...
Complex Type Support in the EDM Designer in Entity Framework 4 Yesterday I installed the new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 . Since then I’m learning the new features of .NET 4 and in particularly Entity Framework 4 (or EF4 ). In the near future I’m going to write about the new features and enhancement made in EF4 . In this post I’m revisiting a post I wrote in the past – Creating Complex Types in Entity Framework – and show how to use the EDM designer in EF4 to achieve the same functionality. What are...
What to be Expecting of Entity Framework in .NET 4 The ADO.NET team started to release a series of posts that describe the primary scenarios and patterns they have been working on throughout the new release of Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 . The primary scenarios and patterns you should be expecting: Development Approaches Model First development – Enables the developer to start develop the model and then have T-SQL and customized code generated from that model. Enable testing applications with...
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