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LLBLGen Pro v3.0 sneak-peak video
I created a small video (flash movie) of a neat feature of the upcoming LLBLGen Pro v3.0 designer: creating a typed list definition from search results obtained in the designer by running a custom piece of code (C#, with Linq to objects. VB.NET is also...

Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 1:27 PM by FransBouma | 4 comment(s)

Happy 6th anniversary, LLBLGen Pro!
Today, it's been exactly 6 years ago we released the first version of LLBLGen Pro , v1.0.2003.1 after a development period of roughly 9 months (Sunday september 7th 2003, late in the evening). It was a big gamble, would it succeed or fail? We got our...

Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 10:46 AM by FransBouma | 21 comment(s)

LLBLGen Pro and SQL Azure
LLBLGen Pro works with SQL Azure, that is, the generated code and the runtime library. There are a couple of things you should be aware of, and I'll enlist them briefly below. The thing which doesn't work is creating a project from a SQL Azure database...

Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 3:48 PM by FransBouma | 1 comment(s)

Linq: Beware of the 'Access to modified closure' demon
If you're using Linq and Resharper, you've probably seen the warning Resharper shows when you use a foreach loop in which you use the loop variable in a Linq extension method (be it on IQueryable<T> or IEnumerable<T>). In case you don't know...

Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:32 AM by FransBouma | 15 comment(s)

Baby-sitter Framework 2.0: Change tracking in the EF v2, it's still your problem
More than 1.5 year ago (!) I wrote an article about why change tracking of changes of an entity should really be inside an entity object . Change tracking is the concern of the O/R mapper and the entity object, not the developer using the entity object...

Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 10:52 AM by FransBouma | 9 comment(s)

New interview with me on DotNetRocks!
A new interview with me about everything O/R mapping and more is now live at .Net Rocks ! Enjoy!

Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:33 AM by FransBouma | 11 comment(s)

Software Patents are evil, here's why
I was looking for a reference in ADO.NET Entity Framework documentation (via Google) if a Complex type in an EDM could be part of an association (relationship) like Hibernate supports. I needed this for some tool I'm working on . Google gave me an interesting...

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 5:20 PM by FransBouma | 6 comment(s)

"The Entity Data Model is much bigger than just an ORM" -- Stephen Forte
With almost bleeding ears I'm currently listening to show #369 of .NET Rocks! , which has Danny Simmons and Stephen Forte as guests. Danny is of course known of his major role in the Entity Framework (EF) design and Forte is one of the Council of Wise...

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:51 PM by FransBouma | 16 comment(s)

Linq to LLBLGen Pro: feature highlights, part 2
In the first part of this series I talked about the fact that Linq to LLBLGen Pro is a full implementation of Linq and why it's so important to use a full linq provider instead of a half-baked one. Today, I'll discuss a couple of native LLBLGen Pro features...

Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:00 PM by FransBouma | 1 comment(s)

Linq to LLBLGen Pro: feature highlights, part 1
Some people asked me what the highlights are of Linq to LLBLGen Pro , which was released this week , as it seems that Linq support is apparently growing on trees these days. In this and some future posts I'll try to sum up some of the characteristic features...

Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:11 PM by FransBouma | 4 comment(s)

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