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July 03 2009
She finally buckled. How many of us learned about Object Oriented Programming and oh so much more from Deborah? (Raising my hand) Deborah's Developer MindScape Subscribed read moreVS Debugging - Why did VS stop breaking on Exceptions?
July 03 2009
I can't believe I put up with this problem for so long. It was an easy solution, just not an obvious one. Read more... read moreBook recommendations by David Chappell include Programming Entity Framework
July 02 2009
I am very honored to be on a short list of books (three, in fact) recommended by David Chappell in his recent blog post “Good Books”. And I am in impressive company – with Dino Esposito & Andrea Saltarello and Jon Flanders. Here’s what David has to say about my… read moreOracle Woos Microsoft OracleClient users
June 29 2009
Although Oracle has long had an area of it’s website dedicated to it’s .NET provider, ODP.NET, they have recently added a page specifically for users of Microsoft’s soon-to-be deprecated System.Data.OracleClient: ODP.NET for Microsoft OracleClient No mention of EF support yet, not even in the new features list for the ODP.NET… read moreEating the Dog Food during App Week
June 27 2009
From Danny Simmon's blog: App week is a time we set aside at periodically to devote as much of our attention as possible to using the EF and related technologies to build applications so that we can experience some of the joys (and pain) of our valued customers. read moreJune 26 2009
Now that DataDirect’s Beta of their Oracle Provider with EF support is available, Jonathan Bruce (from DD) is starting to write technical posts about how to use it. Yesterday he posted Effective EF with Oracle And today: Effective EF with Oracle (Stored Procedures with REF CURSORs) read moreJune 25 2009
Last June, Rich & I said goodbye to our darling old ladies, Tasha & Daisy, and have been sad and dogless ever since. Yesterday, finally, we picked up a new dog, Sampson. He’s a 17 month old Newfoundland and we are his fourth and final home. Although my parents are… read moreAnd where would you go to shed your skin
June 25 2009
Last year I found three snake skins in the compost bin. Last night I found three snakes and one new skin. They didn’t like me taking their picture and I didn’t get it focused well, but at least I was kind and put the compost into the other bin. read moreEF: Why work with ObjectStateEntries instead of the objects directly?
June 23 2009
Most often when you want to interact with an object’s state, or change tracking information you cannot do that through the object itself. Instead you need to get at the ObjectStateEntry which the context created to manage the object. Inside the the ObjectStateEntry you have access to the current values,… read moreThe Rest of EF4 - Feature CTP1 Released today
June 23 2009
There were three big things that the EF team could not get into the VS2010 box on time – POCO T4 Templates, Code-Only features (POCO without a model) and Self-Tracking Entities. Even though VS2010 is only in Beta 1, the way the release cycles work, these three things won’t be… read moreOracle and ADO.NET- Microsoft: Deprecated; Oracle: quiet, DataDirect:Beta and DevArt:Released
June 21 2009
While I was away Microsoft finally announced that they were deprecating their support for System.Data.OracleClient. Rember that “deprecated” means 10 years before it’s totally gone. It *will* continue to be supported. In fact here’s the official statement: Microsoft will continue to provide hotfixes for critical issues in System.Data.OracleClient as per… read moreEF4: Model-Defined Functions Level 1 & 2
June 21 2009
Model Defined Functions are a great addition to EF4. It allows you to add functions directly into your model rather than having to place the additional logic into business classes. This not only allows the functions to be “just there”, but you can use them in queries, something that you… read moreVisual Studio's Database Publishing Wizard and the new 1-Click Web Deployment
June 20 2009
I've been using the DB Publishing Wizard in VS2008 and VS2010 and learning about the huge improvements to Web Deployment in VS2010. You can read more about my discoveries here: Visual Studio's Database Publishing Wizard and the new 1-Click Web Deployment [A DevLife blog post] read moreFantastic on-going Entity Frameworks Tips Series from EF’s Alex James
June 20 2009
Alex James, a program manager on the EF team, has been posting a series of EF tips that just keeps getting better and better. Most of the tips revolve around using EF today with some nods to the upcoming EF4 in Visual Studio 2010. Read more…. [A DevLife blog post] read moreJune 16 2009
I never figured out how OOF translates to Out of the Office, but that's what I am. I'm on vacation and not blogging though I have posted a tweet or two a day on my twitter account at twitter.com/julielermanVT. Have a great week! read moreAlso find Julia on:
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