A Pattern for Sharing Data Across Domain-Driven Design Bounded Contexts
My latest MSDN Magazine column – October 2014 issue – has just gone live. A Pattern for Sharing Data Across Domain-Driven Design Bounded ContextsJulie Lerman explores a way to mirror data as one...
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My TechEd Europe Schedule
I’m so very excited to be heading to Barcelona shortly for TechEd Europe. You may or may not be aware of my dashed hopes last year when I was scheduled to speak at TechEd Europe in Madrid. But when I...
View ArticleEF6 Ninja Edition Course is Live on Pluralsight
It’s been a long haul and a long wait. I started work on this course, then switched gears to work on the Domain–Driven Design Fundamentals course with Steve Smith. When I returned to work on the EF6...
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Some Observations While Playing With EF7 Alpha Bits
My first coding foray into EF7 was as a code monkey for Pranav Rastogi from the ASP.NET team at TechEd Europe where he walked me through converting a simple EF6 app to EF7. (“Entity Framework Now and...
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Some Observations While Playing With EF7 Alpha Bits: EF7-Able Projects
You can’t install EF7 into just any project. Especially now that they are making the shift to focusing on ASP.NET 5 for it’s initial release. Here are combinations that will work: (Have not tried...
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Some Observations While Playing With EF7 Alpha Bits: Current vs On-Hold APIs
Some Observations While Playing With EF7 Alpha Bits (Dec 27) Some Observations While Playing With EF7 Alpha Bits: EF7-Able Projects (Jan 5) You may or may not have caught this important blog post from...
View ArticleLooking Ahead to Entity Framework 7 on Pluralsight
Pluralsight has published my latest course, a 2.5 hour course about Entity Framework 7 (EF7). “Looking Ahead to Entity Framework 7” EF7 is not released yet. It will get released as a “pre-release”...
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Some EF7 Beta3 to Beta4 API Syntax Changes
I am updating some demos I created earlier in the year and using the Beta4 version of EF7 that is the latest stable beta and available on Nuget as opposed to the super-bleeding edge APIs you can get...
View ArticleEF7 Beta 4 & LINQ Queries: Be sure you have the right LINQ package
TLDR: For EF7 Beta 4 (via nuget) the package you want is Remotion.Linq 2.0.0-alpha-002. I recently updated some demos from using the EF7 stable (stable comes from Nuget.org, not the nightly build...
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Installing EF Power Tools into VS2015
TLDR: If you don’t want to do the tasks (even though they are so easy) you can download the updated VSIX I created from here. The Entity Framework Power Tools extension for Visual Studio has been...
View ArticleSome DDD+EF Resources
Could not fit this into a tweet in response to a request. Here are some resources for how EF can be a partner to a Domain Driven Design world: Update June 2015: Microsoft Ignite, Chicago May 2015...
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Getting Started with EF6 Course on Pluralsight
You may think you read that title wrong. Does she mean EF7? No, I actually invested some time into creating a new Getting Started with EF6 course even though EF6 was released about 18 months ago. When...
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Visual Studio 2015, Command Prompt & Powershell ExecutionPolicy
Just a hint in case you run into this problem that took a few days to discover the pattern. I have the Productivity Power Tools 2015 installed as an extension to VS2015. These are from Microsoft and...
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Diving Into ASP.NET 5 Beta 8? Don’t forget the web tools!
Some developers have been working closely with the evolving ASP.NET 5. Not me. I play with it once in a while. My last time was in the spring with the beta 4. Beta 8 was just released and I was working...
View ArticleEF7 EnsureCreated vs. Migrate Methods
I had a “demo gods” problem recently…of course I hit the jackpot combo during a conference presentation though never while practicing. Remember that EF7 is not EF6 with new features. So behavior can...
View ArticleRecent Data Points Columns: Aurelia, Azure DocumentDB, Scriptcs, EF6, EF7,...
Data Points – Aurelia Meets DocumentDB: A Matchmaker’s Journey (Part 1) *Part 2 will be in Dec 2015 issue Nov 2015 After exploring both DocumentDB and the new Aurelia framework, Julie Lerman decided...
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Entity Framework, TimeSpan & SQL Server Time
In the “hey, you cant know everything” category…. A client asked me a question today about mapping TimeSpan to the Time data type in SQL Server. I didn’t know there was a Time data type in SQL Server....
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In Case I Forget a Third Time: project.json config for referencing full .NET...
I’ve been working with an ASP.NET 5 app that uses an EF6 module. The EF6 module is .Net 4.6. When re-creating this from scratch, I keep making the same mistake which confounded me for hours the first...
View ArticleIs Visual Studio Code Bugging You For Your User Name and E-Mail Address?
“Please configure your git user name and e-mail” Are you seeing this message when trying to push changes from Visual Studio Code to github? It turns out that all of those times I’d been...
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EF7 RC1 Notes–An Update to my Pluralsight “Planning Ahead for Entity...
In early 2015, I published a course titled “Looking Ahead to Entity Framework 7”. This was created using an early version of the work that the EF team was doing on the total refresh of Entity...
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