Putting a good technical talk together takes a decent amount of work. You need to make sure your talk tells a story from end-to-end, you need to give folks enough context (without spending the whole talk in PowerPoint), and you need clear concise demos that folks can follow. You also have to make sure your … Continue reading EF6 Level 100-200 Talk-in-a-Box
Entity Framework
EF Code First Mapping Between Types & Tables
Starting in EF6.1 there is an easier way to do this. See my new EF6.1 Mapping Between Types & Tables post for details. Entity Framework includes the MetadataWorkspace which gives you access to the metadata EF keeps about the shape of your model. The problem is that the Mapping section of this – the bit … Continue reading EF Code First Mapping Between Types & Tables
EF5 & EF6 on VS Toolbox (Source Code Included)
I recently had the pleasure of appearing on a Visual Studio Toolbox episode, hosted by Robert Green, with my co-worker Glenn Condron. Back in the EF4.3 days I had been part of another 2 part series on VS Toolbox with Diego Vega. Since the previous episodes were so popular we thought we should catch up … Continue reading EF5 & EF6 on VS Toolbox (Source Code Included)
EF6 Suspendable Execution Strategy
EF6 introduces the new connection resiliency feature that allows for automatic retries of failed database operations. I was recently writing some documentation for EF6 and came across a scenario where it would be useful to have a global switch to enable/disable retry logic. Such a switch isn’t built into EF6, although we do have an … Continue reading EF6 Suspendable Execution Strategy
TechEd 2013 Talks & Source Code
Last week I had the pleasure of attending TechEd 2013 to present a couple of sessions. Here are links to the session recordings, slides and source code. Breakout Session: Entity Framework 6: Database Access Anywhere, Easily This session covers the basics of EF6, open source, and a series of demos for the new EF6 … Continue reading TechEd 2013 Talks & Source Code
Running EF T4 Code Generation Templates from Command Line
Since EF4 and Visual Studio 2010 you have been able to use T4 templates to generate code from models created using the EF Designer. Starting with EF5 and Visual Studio 2012 T4 based code generation is the default for new models created using the EF Designer. When you create a new model using VS2012 or later … Continue reading Running EF T4 Code Generation Templates from Command Line
EF6: Switching Identity On/Off with a Custom Migration Operation
Here is the scenario, I have a class in my Code First model that has a primary key configured as an identity column. I want to change it so that I can generate values in my code. Alternatively I may want to change an existing column - that my code is generating values for - … Continue reading EF6: Switching Identity On/Off with a Custom Migration Operation
