Contributions to Entity framework community

zhirani — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:39:37 GMT

If you had been reading my blog, you must be wondering where did he go after publishing such awesome blog entries(jk). I had gotten lot of good feed back on the examples I had done on linq to SQL but like all good things must come to an end so did linq to SQL for me. My company was committed in moving forward with EF so I decided to move forward with Entity framework as well. During the process I learned so much stuff and felt the pain most developers went through with this technology. No doubt EF has a learning curve like any other technology but mapping scenarios offered by EF are simply great.

May be the reader base can get the same perception about EF and the mapping scenarios it offers even in version 1 as I did, after reading the PDF that contains 500 pages of content about entity framework. I wish I could complete the whole thing and discuss every aspect of EF that I had learned. Time is definitely a concern for me because I have to move to other cool things that I have been wanting to get to but never made it.

Below is a link to the PDF document that contains examples of various mapping scenarios and concepts that I have learned about entity framework

Entity Framework learning guide

I have updated the project to include the console app that executes the models. In addition, the zip also contains all the databases required for the projects to run.

Complete Project With databases

Due to time constraints, I have not been able to do editing or modify the English to improve its readability. My intent was to use this document as learning guide for me and my co-workers but I felt that content is useful enough to benefit rest of the community.

I hope everyone enjoys the content. If you have any feedback, please be sure to send me an email at zeeshanjhirani@gmail.com

My contributions to the community.

zeeshanhirani — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:24:00 GMT

OK its pay back time. Over the last 3 years working as a .NET developer I had made significant progress in my life. It all due to extraordinary developers contributing to our community and teaching us good practices to write and produce better software. I have acknowledged the fact that more you teach other people, the better you get. My journey begins here. There is no better way to serve the community than to participate in writing blogs and converse about new thing that I discover while performing my daily jobs at work. I will strive to write good content to help other fellow developers with my knowledge contribution. This blog will serve as a vessel for my technical thoughts as well as my personal ones.

Obviously there are certain trade offs I would have to make in order for me to dedicate more time to writing blog entries. However I see embarking on this opportunity as a way to improvise my communication skills and be more lucid in expressing my thoughts. Asp.net has not only been my profession but a drive that motivates me to develop myself everyday as a software developer. I will endeavor to make good impact on the software community with my share of knowledge in .net. So wish me best of luck in making the most intricate change in my life!

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Contributions to Entity framework community

My contributions to the community.