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Getting Started with EF 4.1
Thursday, May 12, 2011 Julie Lerman
Stored Procedures in the Entity Framework
Wednesday, Apr 27, 2011 Julie Lerman
Code First: Mapping Fluent API
Thursday, Apr 21, 2011 Julie Lerman
Database Initializers
Thursday, Apr 21, 2011 Julie Lerman

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Code First Relationships Fluent API
Thursday, May 12, 2011 Julie Lerman
Building an MVC 3 App with Code First and Entity Framework 4.1
Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 Julie Lerman
Building an MVC 3 App with Code First and Entity Framework 4.1
Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 Julie Lerman

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update model connection string of dynamic data entities web application
Using VS 2010, I have created a simple dynamic data entities web application (using the template pro... more
Tuesday, Jul 2

Reverse Engineer Code First Freezes - Entity Framework Power Tools
I am attempting to Reverse Engineer an existing database with around 600 tables. I let the process ... more
Tuesday, Jul 2

DataBase First - type problem on Not Mandatory Foreing keys code (int?)
Hello guys! I'm facing a huge problem. In my project that we use DatabaseFirst a few days ago I not... more
Tuesday, Jul 2

just one table gets not created - why?
Hi all I am using EntityFramework to initially create a database at runtime when the app starts. Unt... more
Tuesday, Jul 2

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EF and Visual Studio 2013 Preview
The availability of Visual Studio 2013 Preview was announced today. This preview contains Entity Fra... more
Wednesday, Jun 26 Rowan Miller

EF6 Beta 1 Available
Since releasing Alpha 3 a few months ago, we've been working hard to add the remaining new features ... more
Wednesday, May 29 Rowan Miller

Entity Framework Links #4
This is the fourth post in a regular series to recap interesting articles, posts and other happening... more
Monday, Mar 18 Rowan Miller

EF6 Alpha 3 Available on NuGet
A couple of months back we released EF6 Alpha 2, since then we've been adding new features, polishin... more
Wednesday, Feb 27 Rowan Miller

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Julie Lerman
Julie Lerman is a .NET developer who spends most of her time researching, writing and teaching others about .NET.

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EF6 Beta 1 Tools First Pass is VS EF Designer, Not Power Tools, Yet & I’m Good With That
Saturday, Jun 1 Julie
My New Pluralsight Course: Automated Testing for Fraidy Cats Like Me
Tuesday, May 28 Julie
Entity Framework Power Tool Tips to View Model (A Feature I Depend On!)
Monday, May 27 Julie
VSLive Chicago Sessions Slide Decks and Demos
Wednesday, May 15 Gil Fink
Upcoming Conference Gigs
Sunday, May 12 Julie
My Current Pluralsight Courses on Entity Framework
Sunday, May 12 Julie
CodeStock Keynote and Maybe Some Sessions, too
Friday, May 10 Julie
EF Code First Book (Ebook) 1/2 price today (April 25) at O’Reilly
Thursday, Apr 25 Julie

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Using a sql reserved keyword as the name of a collection on a DbContext causes an exception.
Using a sql reserved keyword as the name of a set on a DbContext causes an EntitySqlException saying... more Kevin2

ComplexType propery on intermediate class in inheritance chain causes extremely verbose SQL
Using EF Code First. Tried in 4.2 and 4.3: If you have an inheritance hierarchy with three layers an... more Frans Lytzen

Crash if using Application class 4.2
Try this code. it's always crash namespace Models { public abstract class Application { ... more Omid Mafakher

Unable to dynamically add Include statements using POCOs
Using Self Tracking Entities, you are unable to add dynamic Include statements in your EF queries. F... more DasSoulman

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