Programming Entity Framework

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 book: Programming Entity Framework...

It felt like ages for the first pile of books to run out but I've been told by O'Reilly they are running low enough at the warehouse that they are going to print another batch of books in a week or so. Tech book sales are bad all over, so even though I was hoping this would happen much sooner (sure,...

While I truly enjoy the emails I'm getting from readers, I'm happy to share with you that O'Reilly has created a forum for discussing this book. http://forums.oreilly.com/category/74/Programming-Entity-Framework/ Keep the emails coming, but if you want to share your thoughts or discoveries with other...

Because O'Reilly has a mechanism for readers to submit errata which allows authors to review, comment and confirm that errata, I would rather not duplicate the effort on this site. Here is a link to the errata page for my book on O'Reilly's website: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520281/errata/ ....

I've really been wanting to share the acknowledgements from my book with a wider audience than just the readers of my book (or for that matter, just the readers who happen to even bother reading the Preface. ;)). So, here they are: Where do I begin? I have had great help and support from many people...

One of the big questions people have about Entity Framework's dynamically generated queries is "what does the store query look like?", immediately followed by "is that store query acceptable"? There are a few ways to see what the store generated queries look like. One is to use ObjectQuery.ToTraceString...

The book is already in print and I have a small box of them that I got last week. But still... there's something about Amazon's status that really denotes if the book is live or just memorex. So I was certainly happy to see this a short while ago: Of course Amazon isn't the only place to buy books. ;...

Last week, I was demoing some basic Entity Framework queries to a client and explaining that the store queries are parameterized, alleviating one area of concern. But when we looked at SQL Profiler the query was not parameterized. Why was this? The query I had used was: var query = from c in context...

Although the digital version of my book, Programming Entity Framework, is now live on Safari , it seems that the full PDF download is still only that of the Rough Cut that has been online since this fall. If you download the PDF, please compare it to the chapters that are displayed online. The Rough...

It's hard to believe that the Vermont.NET User Group has been going for 7 years. But it's true. Our February meeting marks our 7th Anniversary. And since it will also be around the release date of my book , I scheduled myself to do a presentation which will be "You can do *that* with Entity Framework...