compiler padawan
My adventures learning how to build compilers.
Mapping Read-only Entities
I can't take credit for the description of how to do this, but a very useful example was recently...
Author: simmdan Date: 11/08/2007
Off to Dev Connections in the morning
In case any of you are attending Dev Connections in Las Vegas this week, I'm planning on being there...
Author: simmdan Date: 11/04/2007
Two specific ways to take more control of your object model
There was an interesting discussion on the LINQ Project General forum today (scroll down toward the...
Author: simmdan Date: 10/09/2007
EF Persistence Ignorance Recap
I had someone email me a question today about POCO, IPOCO, persistence ignorance and the EF, and I...
Author: simmdan Date: 09/26/2007
More about embedding metadata in resources...
Updated 2/16/2009: This issue was fixed before 3.5sp1 was released. So you should not have this...
Author: simmdan Date: 09/20/2007
Concepts Part I: Getting an entity model up and running
I've been thinking for a while about a series of blog posts I'd like to write explaining various...
Author: simmdan Date: 09/15/2007
August CTP of the Entity Framework released
Sorry for the dearth of blog posting folks, but now that the August CTP is out, it seems like I...
Author: simmdan Date: 08/28/2007
"June" CTP of the Entity Framework is finally out
Hey folks, It has been longer in arriving than I would have liked, but the June CTP of the Entity...
Author: simmdan Date: 07/02/2007
Persistence Ignorance: OK, I think I get it now.
Let me apologize up front for how long it has taken me to get back to this topic. What I can say,...
Author: simmdan Date: 06/02/2007
Where’s the model? Is it the code or something else?
A few weeks ago I had a very interesting email exchange with Jeffrey Palermo in which he raised some...
Author: simmdan Date: 05/04/2007
Celebrating the Death of DoFinalConstruction()
In a previous post I explained how the Entity Framework supported custom construction of entity...
Author: simmdan Date: 05/03/2007
Book report: Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Martin & Martin
Several weeks ago (in this post), I said that there would be a delay before I wrote more about the...
Author: simmdan Date: 05/02/2007
DNR discussions about the Entity Framework & nHibernate
If you aren't already a regular listener to .Net Rocks, I highly recommend it. Fun and...
Author: simmdan Date: 03/27/2007
A delay before I write more about persistence ignorance...
I've promised to write more about persistence ignorance in the Entity Framework, and while waiting...
Author: simmdan Date: 03/27/2007
Change Tracking Mechanisms
I continually find myself delaying posts on topics like this because I’d like to do a better job by...
Author: simmdan Date: 03/27/2007
Persistence Ignorance in the Entity Framework
Unfortunately I don't have the time right now to write up a full treatement of this subject, but...
Author: simmdan Date: 03/13/2007
ADO.Net Entities and WPF made for each other? You bet.
Check out this recent entry on Sahil Malik's blog:...
Author: simmdan Date: 02/19/2007
New EDM 101 posting on the ADO.Net team blog...
If you are interested in ADO.Net Orcas and the Entity Framework, then you should check out this new...
Author: simmdan Date: 02/02/2007
Fire-and-Forget Key Values Made Easy
In a previous posting I described in some detail an all-too-complicated and restrictive mechanism...
Author: simmdan Date: 02/02/2007
Sorry for the hiatus… Time to start blogging again.
If there's actually anybody out there reading this... Sorry I've been so long without any...
Author: simmdan Date: 02/02/2007
Fire-and-Forget Key Values
NOTE as of 3/27/07: In more recent CTPs, the mechanism described below has been replaced by...
Author: simmdan Date: 08/27/2006
Query me this...
Good intentions aside, it has been more than a week since my last blog entry. Urrggg. Fortunately,...
Author: simmdan Date: 08/27/2006
Rich vs. Reach
In spite of my enthusiastic passion for the Internet and my history (before coming to Microsoft I...
Author: simmdan Date: 08/18/2006
Why not UpdateObject()?
A question came up in the ADO.Net Technology preview forum recently which made me think that it...
Author: simmdan Date: 08/18/2006