Contents tagged with Entity Framework
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A bad idea, EF Entities over WCF Part II
In the previous post, I discussed how bad was to expose EF entities directly as data contracts from a perspective of “interoperability”. This also revealed a lot of internal implementation details about EF that the client applications should not worry about.
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A Bad Idea, EF Entities over WCF
Do you want to see something very ugly ?. Try to send a complete EF entity directly as a data contract over the wire with WCF,
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Issues to subdivide an entity framework model
The other day, my team and I ran into some design issues while trying to split a big Entity Framework model into smaller pieces according to areas of functionality. At first glance, it seemed to be a common design problem, something easy to overcome, but it did not result that way. I could not find much information about people having the same issue either.
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Using the WCF OAuth channel with an ADO.NET service
As I promised in my previous post "OAuth Channel for WCF RESTful services", it is now time to show this new channel in action with a real service. To make this sample more interesting, I decided to base this implementation on an ADO.NET service that provides information about contacts.