RC of Entity Framework 4.1 (including EF Code First) is released

Scott Guthrie announced on his blog that the Release Candidate of the excellent Entity Framework 4.1 is now available. See here for all the gen.

 

He has also updated the "NerdDinner" sample project to use the new EF4.1 features, especially the "Code First" pattern where you can create lovely, clean POCO models and have them automatically create the database schema, update the schema and handle the repository actions.

It's a fantastic post and goes a long way to explaining the topics. However, given the bleeding-edge of this technology, there are a couple of differences between Scott's code and the RC code that you can get from here.

New names for IDatabaseInitializer conventions

Scott's code shows the following to persuade (in debug code) how to recreate [...]

March 24th, 2011 | Category: Asp.Net, C#, Code, Entity Framework, Uncategorized | 2 comments

Ahhh... the olden days... DialogBox, MessagePumps and the joy of HWNDs

How soon we forget. A few years ago, I weaned myself off of Visual C++ and MFC and toyed (briefly) with ASP.NET

Now, I'm finally getting to grips with C#, .NET and CLR 4.0 and Silverlight.

And, all of a sudden, I'm thrust back to 1996. Why? Because we need to write a GINA (Graphical Identification aNd Authentication) component as part of a password reset application.

So, here we are, with definitely no CLR (which rules out C# and CLR) and recommended against the MFC. So, we're literally back in the days of defining dialog boxes as a set of resource definitions, and copious calls to CreateWindow. And that's before we get to the single threaded message pump that is WndProc.

Couple all of that [...]

June 18th, 2010 | Category: Asp.Net, C#, Code, Silverlight, Win32 API | 3 comments

Silverlight 3 Navigation – navigating from a UserControl

I’ve been toying with Silverlight over the last couple of weeks and, I have to say, it’s much more complete than ASP.Net ever was (**). Lots of new paradigms to get my head around, of course, but overall it’s a very complete solution for an RIA.

Anyway, to the point of this posting; the new (in Silverlight 3.0) Navigation Framework is great; it allows you to present a common interface and have new pages display in a know part of the browser window, supports browser back/forward, and URL rewrites. See here for more information.

If you are inside a page that is controlled by the framework, then you are able to call on the NavigationService.Navigate method to divert control to a new XAML [...]

October 6th, 2009 | Category: Asp.Net, C#, Code, Silverlight | 7 comments

“The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document.” – VS2008

I’d been hacking around with Sharp Architecture (#Arch)a few months back but haven’t touched it recently. However, the release of 1.0 to coincide with the formal release of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 got me interested again, so I downloaded the latest and greatest to see what’s adoing…

There’s a great community around #Arch and it’s pretty easy to get your head around (assuming you’ve a basic grounding in MVC and NHibernate) and it even comes with a sample/tutorial app based on the ubiquitous NorthWind database. Now, being a cautious sort I figured I’d start by getting the NorthWind sample up and running, as this would prove I had all the dependencies installed and wired up.

All you (should) need to do is restore the [...]

April 12th, 2009 | Category: #Architecture, Asp.Net, Code, Vista | 2 comments