Julia Lerman

http://twitter.com/julielerman

Author, Consultant, Mentor, Speaker

Areas of Expertise:

  • Entity Framework
  • .NET
  • Data Access
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing
Julia Lerman is the leading independent authority on the Entity Framework and has been using and teaching the technology since its inception in 2006. She is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, and INETA Speaker. Julie is a frequent presenter at technical conferences around the world and writes articles for many well-known technical publications including the Data Points column in MSDN Magazine. You can read her blog at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and follow her on Twitter at julielerman.

Programming Entity Framework: DbContext Programming Entity Framework: DbContext
by Julia Lerman , Rowan Miller
February 2012
Print: $24.99
Ebook: $14.99

Programming Entity Framework: Code First Programming Entity Framework: Code First
by Julia Lerman , Rowan Miller
November 2011
Print: $24.99
Ebook: $14.99

Programming Entity Framework Programming Entity Framework
by Julia Lerman
Second Edition August 2010
Print: $59.99
Ebook: $43.99

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

Julia blogs at:

Upcoming Conference Gigs

May 12 2013

         Keynote Address Entity Framework in Core Business Applications and Domain-Driven Design Approaches See the mini-DDD track in New Orleans & Madrid Journey to DDD read more

My Current Pluralsight Courses on Entity Framework

May 12 2013

Course Released Hrs:Min Entity Framework 4.0 By Example Aug 2010 2:19 Entity Framework and Data Models Nov 2010 1:32 Designer Supported EDM Customization Jan 2011 2:05 Querying the Entity Framework Feb 2011 1:23 Entity Framework 4.1 - Code First Jun 2011 1:59 Entity Framework 4.1 - DbContext Sep 2011… read more

CodeStock Keynote and Maybe Some Sessions, too

May 10 2013

I’m thrilled to have been invited to deliver the keynote talk at CodeStock 2013 in Knoxville this July. I’ll be talking about how Domain Driven Design (DDD) has inspired me a-new after almost 25 years of software development. And I hope to inspire others to take a closer look… read more

EF Code First Book (Ebook) 1/2 price today (April 25) at O’Reilly

April 25 2013

Deal of the Day Discover Our 5-Star Ebooks for 2013 Save 50% on the Top 25 – Today Only We keep a running tally of our top-performing, five-star titles. These are the books that have most impressed and earned praise from readers like you. We're now sharing the list… read more

Getting Started with WCF Data Services 5.4, OData v3 and JSON Light

April 06 2013

TLDR: Setup steps to get WCFDS 5.4 up and running JULBS (Julie’s Usual Lengthy Back Story): WCF Data Services (aka WCFDS) updates are being released at a rapid pace. I think they are on a hoped-for 6-week release schedule and they just released 5.4 a few days ago. One of the reasons is… read more

A Notable Entity Framework Performance Eater: Casting nchar to nvarchar under the covers

April 02 2013

Brian Sullivan was having a weird query performance problem with one particular EF query and asked about it here on Stackoverflow. Some very knowledgeable people asked all the right questions. It made no sense. He finally discovered the source of the problem himself. His code first model defined a string property which… read more

Video Pick from Getting Started with Entity Framework 5 Course

March 16 2013

Here is a 6 minute preview from my new Pluralsight course, Getting Started with Entity Framework 5.   The course is about 4.5 hours long and I’ve written a small “guide” to it in this blog post: Getting Started with EF5 – New Course on Pluralsight so that you can… read more

Entity Framework at Boston Code Camp #19

March 11 2013

I had the pleasure of going to Cambridge this weekend along with a car load of Vermonters (myself, Rachel Reese, Dennis Doire and Kyle Mitofksy) to participate in Boston Code Camp at Microsoft’s NERD Center. We left just as Boston was getting pummeled with snow and a prediction of 10-14”. We… read more

Getting Started with EF5 – New Course on Pluralsight

March 06 2013

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… read more

What’s Best for Unit Testing in EF? It depends, dude!

February 04 2013

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! :) It always… read more

Attaching an MDF Database to LocalDb in Visual Studio the Easier Way

January 26 2013

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… read more

Tour the Top 10 Treats in Entity Framework 4
January 27, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 bring us a new version of ADO.NET Entity Framework, called Entity Framework 4. From the designer, to the APIs to entire new feature sets to support agile development, ...

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