My Long-Running, Not-Yet-Complete, Investigation into a New Haswell Ultrabook
(I'm updating this post frequently as I learn more about these machines or about ones I haven't looked at well enough yet)November 16 update:Samsung ATIV Pro book 9 is announced but not on amazon...
View ArticleCoding for Domain-Driven Design: Tips for Data-Focused Devs
In honor of the 10th Anniversay of Eric Evan’s book: Domain Driven Design, Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003), I’ve written a 3-part series for my MSDN...
View ArticleThe somewhat super secret MSDN docs on EF6
Along with all of the great info on entityframework.codeplex.com, the MSDN Library has a bunch of documents targeting EF6, currently listed as “Future Version”. There is a “Future Version of EF” page...
View ArticleEF6 Connection Resiliency for SQL Azure* – When does it actually do it’s thing?
*Windows Azure SQL Database makes the blog post title just too darned long!I’ve been messing around with the DbExecutionStrategy types in EF6 and trying to force the strategy to kick in.I spent a...
View ArticleHow EF6 Enables Mocking DbSets more easily
There’s an interesting change in EF6 that simplifies unit testing when EF is in the way and you don’t want to engage it at all.EF6 DbSet gained new features. The team had to decide if they would make a...
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My Long-Running, Not-Yet-Complete, Investigation into a New Haswell Ultrabook
(I’m updating this post frequently as I learn more about these machines or about ones I haven’t looked at well enough yet) Dec 18 update: The search is over! I’m in Love! Well, the Samsung Ativ Book 9...
View ArticleCoding for Domain-Driven Design: Tips for Data-Focused Devs
In honor of the 10th Anniversay of Eric Evan’s book: Domain Driven Design, Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003), I’ve written a 3-part series for my MSDN...
View ArticleThe somewhat super secret MSDN docs on EF6
Along with all of the great info on entityframework.codeplex.com, the MSDN Library has a bunch of documents targeting EF6, currently listed as “Future Version”. There is a “Future Version of EF” page...
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EF6 Connection Resiliency for SQL Azure* – When does it actually do it’s thing?
*Windows Azure SQL Database makes the blog post title just too darned long! I’ve been messing around with the DbExecutionStrategy types in EF6 and trying to force the strategy to kick in. I spent a...
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Testing Out the Connection Resiliency Feature into EF6
A few days ago I wrote a blog post about gaining a better understanding of the new connection resiliency feature of EF6. The feature is implemented using an implementation of a new class,...
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How EF6 Enables Mocking DbSets more easily
There’s an interesting change in EF6 that simplifies unit testing when EF is in the way and you don’t want to engage it at all. EF6 DbSet gained new features. The team had to decide if they would make...
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Fix for VS2013 Not Showing Databases in SQL Server Object Explorer
This really had me confused. I have used SSOE plenty in VS2012 and on my laptop that I just replaced, in VS2013. But on my new laptop and on my desktop, I can go through the motions of adding the...
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Problems Installing AMD Catalyst Control Center on Windows 8? Here’s my fix!
TLDR: Updating to Windows 8.1 and reinstalling solved the problem. (And yes, I realize that I just wrote an UpWorthy-worthy post title!) I recently replaced my 19” monitors with a pair of 27” monitors....
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New Blog and New WebSite!
I’ve finally done away with my ancient asp.net 2.0 thedatafarm.com that I hadn’t paid any attention to in many years and with it also moved my blog (an early version of graffitiCMS that was starting to...
View ArticleEmail fixed on new website
Whoops. I neglected to set up SMTP and my two contact forms (contact and mentoring contact) were not working. Just added in the Configure SMTP plugin and all is set.
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.NET Rocks Interview from Phoenix is now online
Last week I flew from the bitterly cold Vermont out to Phoenix Arizona to join Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell in a very cool art film theater in Tempe for their Modern Apps 2013 Road Show Tour....
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Setting my sites on Barcelona this fall for TechEd Europe 2014
This will depend on getting a talk accepted, but I promise I will put my best foot forward! You may or may not know that I was supposed to give a talk at TEE 2013 in Madrid in June and follow that with...
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First look at (beta of) EF 6.1 Designer
EF6.1 is closing in on release. Along with the new DLLs that you can get via Nuget, there is a new designer that you can install into Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 via an MSI install. Before installing, I...
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Hello World … A different type of geek podcast
Shawn Wildermuth started recording a new type of interview podcast where he talks with some well known people in our tech community about how they got started in programming. He’s had software...
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Highlights of Rowan Miller’s EF6/EF7 Talk at TechEd 2014
Yesterday afternoon, Channel 9 chose to broadcast the Entity Framework session presented by Rowan Miller, a Program Manager on the EF team at Microsoft. Rowan is an excellent presenter and the session...
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