Getting Started with EF5 – New Course on Pluralsight
Wednesday, March 06 2013 - Data Access
While EF5 did not bring a huge amount of change to Entity Framework, one small change in the EF Designer in Visual Studio 2012 made a huge difference for people getting started with Entity Framework. The designer now uses a code generator that spits out POCO entity classes managed by a DbContext by default...
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What’s Best for Unit Testing in EF? It depends, dude!
Monday, February 04 2013 - Data Access
This tweet stopped me in my tracks because I couldn’t reply in a tweet: Stephen Coulson @sdcoulson @julielerman In your opinion what is the best solution for unit testing #EF dependent code? #MockingFramework ? #SQLCE ? or other? It’s a loaded question so I’ll just answer briefly. First: it depends!...
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Attaching an MDF Database to LocalDb in Visual Studio the Easier Way
Saturday, January 26 2013 - Data Access
I’ve been loving Visual Studio 2012’s SQL Server Object Explorer (SSOE) instead of always jumping out to SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to do database management. SSOE covers many (not all) common tasks…and many more than VS’s Server Explorer let’s you do. But I spent an embarrassing amount of time...
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April Conferences Where I’ll be Teaching, Plus a Workshop
Thursday, January 03 2013 - Conferences
I’ve enjoyed staying home in Vermont for most of 2012 but the wanderlust is setting in. I’m scheduled to speak at two conferences in April: DevIntersection April 8-12, Las Vegas I’ll be doing 3 talks at this conference, but am not exactly sure which ones will be selected yet. And yes...
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My new rig (aka a development box for a geek who is not a hardware nerd)
Wednesday, December 19 2012 - Tools
This fall I got myself a new development computer. I did my usual indecisive Libra thing over for months before settling on something. My last machine was one that I got arm-twisted into building myself. I’m just not made for this. It should have been obvious when the parts list I selected from Newegg...
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Beware machine.config files messing up Code First provider factories
Thursday, December 13 2012 - Data Access
It took us a long time and a bit of luck to get to the bottom of this problem. It turns out that at two completely different client sites they had computers whose machine.config file had been affected in a way that was causing an error in Code First. The error that was being thrown at runtime was: “Unable...
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Digging in to Multi-Tenant Migrations with EF6 Alpha
Saturday, November 17 2012 - Data Access
I wanted to give the new Multi-Tenant migration feature in the EF6 alpha (released Oct 30, 2012) a whirl and having done so, thought I would save someone a few steps figuring it out. The specs are very useful and thankfully I’m fairly familiar with migrations already so I didn’t have much...
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Making your way around the Open Source Entity Framework CodePlex Site
Thursday, November 15 2012 - Data Access
I haven’t spent a lot of time on CodePlex until EF got there. So between learning my way around CodePlex and also how the EF team is organizing all of their information, I kept missing key information because I didn’t know where it was tucked away. So I thought I would list what I think are the most...
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Recent Interviews & Articles & Videos
Saturday, November 10 2012 - Data Access
Being the lazy gal that I am, I tend to put this info on twitter which is just a passing note, to be forgotten within a day. So I thought I’d collect some of this recent content in one place. Recent Interviews Nov 6th, Pluralsight “Meet the Author: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework in the...
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Easy Move for Outlook when Replacing Office 2013 Preview with RTM
Thursday, October 25 2012 - Tools
I just downloaded Office 2013 Pro Plus from MSDN to install on a machine that was running the preview. As this is a recently repaved computer, Office 2013 Preview was the only version of Office on the box. In prep, I sought out others’ reports on the web, but couldn't find anything except a note somewhere...
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