April 2007 - Posts

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ADO.NET Entity Framework cut from .NET 3.5/Orcas. by FransBouma

First, read the announcement here . Had that deja-vu yet? Me too . But let's not get into that right now, because I do think the Entity Framework situation is different from the WinFS/ObjectSpaces situation. So what's going on here? The following is my...
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More on Lazy Loading vs. Pre-loading in O/R mapping scenarios by FransBouma

Recently I replied to a post on Ayende's blog which I'll quote below: In general lazy loading is more of a burden than a blessing. The reason for this is that it leaks persistent storage access to different tiers via the lazy loadable associations. If...
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I'll do a Chalk & Talk session on O/R mapping at the next Dutch CodeCamp! by FransBouma

I'll host a chalk & talk session at the upcoming Dutch CodeCamp on May 12th. The title is O/R mapping and Architecture , and as my session is the first of 3 sessions, the others are held by Alex Thissen and Paul Gielens , we will align our sessions...
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Why change-tracking has to be part of an entity object by FransBouma

Recently, Andres Aguiar started a discussion between him and Udi Dahan about change tracking in the upcoming Entity Framework (EDM) from Microsoft. Basicly, Andres described why it was unfortunate that the EDM doesn't have change tracking inside the entity...
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this.AddAward(new MVPAward()); by FransBouma

Hurray! . Microsoft awarded me the MVP award for C# for the 4th time!. Congratulations to all the other fellow MVP renewals and new MVPs!
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