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Julia Lerman

http://twitter.com/julielermanvt

Author, Consultant, Mentor, Speaker

Areas of Expertise:

  • .NET
  • Data Access
  • Tablet PC
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing

Biography

Julia Lerman is the leading independent authority on the Entity Framework and has been using and teaching the technology since its inception two years ago. She is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences around the world, including DevConnections and TechEd and she writes articles for many well-known technical publications.

Julia lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, was a founding board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and is a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board. You can read her blog at www.thedatafarm.com/blog.

Books

Programming Entity Framework Programming Entity Framework
by Julia Lerman
February 2009
Print: $54.99
Ebook: $43.99

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Programming Entity Framework: Rough Cuts Version Programming Entity Framework: Rough Cuts Version
by Julia Lerman
October 2008
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Articles

Blog

Julia's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/

Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 2- The Repository

November 20 2009

Part 1 of this series, Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository- Part 1- Model and POCO Classes, covered the classes, the model and the context. Now we will look at the repository. Since the model & context are also part of the repository, my working title for this part of the repository… read more

Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 1- Model and POCO Classes

November 19 2009

I’m going to lay out this out in a few blog posts because it’s complex. As I am not a TDD developer, I won’t be starting from the tests. I’m doing this in a fashion which is logical to me. But that will mean you’ll get some teasers along the… read more

Agile Entity Framework 4 talks at NotAtPDC Online today

November 18 2009

Not at PDC? Well, yeah PDC is having some sessions streamed, like keynotes etc, but for the rest of us, there’s www.notatpdc.com. Two days of live presentations on lots of great topics. Here’s a screenshot of the schedule so far (note that it is CENTRAL time). Go to the website to… read more

Memorial to a tree – yes, a tree

November 18 2009

Five years ago, I wrote this blog post about a tree on our property. I see this tree all day long while I'm working. This tree is like the ocean. In the summer when it is full green and the wind is blowing, it is absolutely mesmerizing to watch it.… read more

Vs2010 IntelliTrace and Entity Framework Database Interaction

November 17 2009

I knew that Intellitrace existed, but not until I saw Nikhil Kotahari’s tweet from PDC09 “Cool VS demo - intellitrace - see your db queries, and track it back to your LINQ code #pdc09” did I think to look at what IntelliTrace reports with respect to Entity Framework database interaction. I fired up… read more

Self-Contained Entity Framework Models and ASP.NET Dynamic Data

November 15 2009

In an earlier post, I wrote about the new awesomeness that ASP.NET 4.0’s Dynamic Data brings to many to many relationships. I frequently notice that most DD demos demonstrate creating the data model within the same project as the DD website. Even though a typical Dynamic Data app is for RAD development… read more

An Improved Entity Framework Tip for EF4 thanks to Zeeshan

November 13 2009

In my EF Tips & Tricks talk that I just did at DevConnections, I have a suggestion to reduce redundant methods where you might expose queries to generate reference lists. E.g. static List<CustomerType> CustomerTypeList(MyEntities context)   {     return context.CustomerTypes.OrderBy(ct => ct.Type).ToList();   } static List<States> StatesList(MyEntities context)   {     return… read more

My Twitter Notes from Scott Guthrie Keynote at DevConnections

November 11 2009

Here are my twitter notes from the Scott Gutrhie keynote at DevConnections yesterday morning. I have just done a quick copy/paste job. Read them from the bottom up!  VS2010 Generate Class on the fly: RT @bsuzy: @julielermanvt excellent video on that here http://bit.ly/3J0AzW (via http://bit.ly/YTDwU)about 19 hours ago from TweetDeck MVC2 -… read more

Notes from Scott Guthrie ASP.NET 4/VS2010 keynote

November 10 2009

I'm at DevConnections and sat in on Scott Guthrie's keynote. I tweeted a lot of notes throughout the session. http://www.twitter.com/julielermanvt I'll try to consolidate them at some point. There's a lot coming from te #devconnections hash on twitter. You don't need to have an account to read this stuff. I didn't use the hashtag… read more

Oredev Wrap-Up

November 08 2009

The hard part about going from one conference to the next is the lack of closure. Not that Oredev was bad and I need closure, but I would like to process it a little bit. This was my third conference in Sweden in the past 2 years, but the first… read more

MSDN Guidance on ASP.NET MVC vs WebForms and its Impact on my EF + ASP.NET Work

November 07 2009

Last year at the fall 2008 DevConnections conference, I was very happy to hear Scott Guthrie providing a clear message about web forms vs. MVC in ASP.NET 4.0. Now, I am seeing something that is new for MSDN Documentation, not only similar clarity but actual guidance on when Microsoft suggests to… read more

ASP.NET 4.0 Dynamic Data and Many to Many Entity Framework Entities

November 07 2009

Even though I’m a much bigger fan of distributed apps than using UI bound data binding, it’s still important for me to know how these various tools work – especially since I need to write about them in my updated E.F. book. ;) I did not play much with Dynamic Data… read more

Lost Newfie (dog) in Bedford Mass

November 05 2009

There’s an alert out from a heart broken person who’s 5 year old Newfie disappeared. It’s possible that the dog was stolen and I’m just helping get the word out. She is a 5 yr old  black newfie with a very tiny spot of white hair on the top of… read more

New Entity Framework Feature CTP for VS2010 Beta 2

November 05 2009

The EF team just released the newest version of the Feature CTP that is now compatible with VS2010 Beta2. Hooray for compatibility, but more importantly, we can now work with a greatly enhanced version of the Code Only feature and Self-Tracking Entities. Code-Only is the API that allows you to… read more

Designer Support for One-Way navigations in Entity Framework 4

October 30 2009

In EF v1, it is possible to have one way navigations where you have an association between two entities but a navigation in only one of them. But the designer didn’t support this. If you deleted a navigation, the association was automatically removed. You could, however, go into the XML and… read more

Multimedia

Webcast: Entity Framework Tips & Tricks
August 27, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Developers discover a lot of behavior in the ADO.NET Entity Framework that is quite unexpected. Programming Entity Framework author, Julie Lerman, will help you avoid some surprises and show you tricks...

Julia Lerman

"Programming Entity Framework is one of the best technical books I've seen in quite a long time."
--Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Development Community Liaison and Author