Crazy title for a blog post? Maybe... but that's exactly what Jonathan Carter (and the Visual Studio & .NET Framework evangelism team at Microsoft) has just released a complete package training kit for. It has the following 6 hands on labs: ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Entity Framework ASP.NET AJAX...

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If you are hooked into VS 2010 then this is an essential kit. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed...

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Here are some book recommendations from Packt Publishing with a sample chapter. Learning jQuery 1.3 Sample Chapter Chapter 4: Effects Entity Framework Tutorial Sample Chapter Chapter 2: Getting Started ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design Sample Chapter Chapter 5: Model View Controller ASP...

Here’s another in my never-ending series of fixes for dumb mistakes. In this episode we lose time with an Entity Framework error. Here’s the error message: System.Data.UpdateException was unhandled by user code Message="Unable to update the EntitySet 'Purchases' because it has a DefiningQuery and no...

Here’s today’s episode of “Losing Time on Something Dumb”… In my ASP.NET 3.5 project (using Telerik’s AJAX controls) I filled a RadComboBox with Items and needed to set the selected item to the current value of the object (I’m using Entity Framework). For the life of me, I couldn’t get this to work:...

I really like working with the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX controls. However, I keep forgetting about a problem in the RadGrid that occurs when trying to add a new record using EntityDataSource. If there aren’t any records yet, and you click Add Record, you often get this: DataBinding: 'Telerik.Web.UI.GridInsertionObject...

I did a presentation titled " Building Apps with ASP.NET MVC 2 and Entity Framework" at Microsoft Community Tech Days . I have given a brief indroduction to ASP.NET MVC and demonstrated how to building applications with ASP.NET MVC 2 and Entity Framework 4. You can download the powerpoint slide from...