Not Just a Designer: Code First in Entity Framework Article on VS Magazine Lately I wrote an article about Code First approach in Entity Framework 4.1 for Visual Studio Magazine . The article was published a few days ago and you can read it here . Enjoy! CodeProject

My SDP Lecturer Interview Last week Sela conducted a live broadcast with trailers to the sessions that will be presented on stage in the SDP conference. The broadcast was recorded if you want to see me “making a fool” of myself in the live broadcast you can watch the recording of my interview here ( in Hebrew ). I’m reminding that I’m going to have two sessions: Creating OData Services with WCF Data Services Data is a first-class element of every application. The Open Data Protocol (OData) applies...

Book Review – Entity Framework 4 In Action I spent some time lately to read the book “Entity Framework 4 in Action” which was written by several authors – Stefano Mostarda, Marco De Sanctis and Daniele Bochicchio. This book was sent to me by Manning Publications as part of the Manning Early Access Program ( MEAP ). What You are Going to Gain from The Book? The book is all about Entity Framework 4. The authors don’t assume that you are familiar with the technology and they take you to an Entity Framework...

MIX11 Open Call Voting Has Started Today MIX conference is the biggest Microsoft web conference which occurs every year in Las Vegas. As in every year Microsoft asked the developers and designers communities to propose sessions that will be part of a community voting. The sessions that will be chosen will be performed on stage at this year’s conference. Since I’m going to MIX11 as in last year, I proposed two sessions and they were chosen to the open call voting. This is the session descriptions...

Entity Framework 4 Session Lately I wasn’t blogging or working because of a very annoying virus. I’m feeling better now so don’t worry I’ll return blogging gradually. I also wanted to tell you about an open house I’m having at Microsoft about Entity Framework 4 . The session will take place at Microsoft ’s office at Ra’anana in Monday 24 of January. In the session I’m going to introduce Entity Framework and then what’s new in Entity Framework 4 . For more details and for registration you can go to...

Sela Open House – Entity Framework 4 On this Wednesday evening I’m going to deliver an open house in Sela Haifa. The session is going to include an introduction to Entity Framework , How to query and manipulate data and a section about Entity Framework 4 . If you are interested and want more details about the event or want to register you can go to the following link . For the list of open houses that Sela conducts go to this link . I hope to see you there. CodeProject

EFProf – Profiler Tool for Entity Framework One of the important tools in your tool arsenal when you develop with an ORM tool is a profiler. Like SQL profiler to a SQL Server DBA an Entity Framework profiler is a must have tool to Entity Framework developer. The main reasons to acquire such a tool are to understand what is going on underneath the hood in the query engine and for performance tuning. If you think that you can use Entity Framework without knowing what it is committing to database then...

Entity Framework Free Tools List In my last session at Microsoft I mentioned some EF free tools that you can use which can help you to be more productive. Since I got a comment about sharing my list, this is the free tool list and the places you can find them and download them: eSqlBlast – a suite of tools that target editing and executing eSQL statements. LINQPad – lets you query data sources in a modern language – LINQ . Supports not only EF and also: LINQ to Objects, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML and...

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...

ADO.NET Entity Framework Session I know that it is very early to announce, but I’m scheduled for an Entity Framework half a day session on October 19 in Microsoft Israel. In that session I’m going to talk about Entity Framework and in particular about LINQ to Entities and the new features of EF4 . If you want to hear the session you can sign in to it from here . I hope to see you there.