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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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ADO.NET Entity Framework Samples on MSDN Code Gallery
MVC Music Store (EF in ASP.NET) on Codeplex
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.NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit
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Unable to determine the principal end of 'foreign key name' relationship. Multiple added entities may have the same primary key.
Problem I'm having is in the subject line. I have looked at the following:http://social.msdn.micro... more
Thursday, May 24

Repository/dbContext design - multiple vs single
Using Northwind as an example, I am wondering would it be better to create a single large Repository... more
Thursday, May 24

Entity framework repository class in DAL returning IQueryable?
Hi,I've got a Silverlight client, WCF service and a SQL DB. In the WCF service I have a business lo... more
Thursday, May 24

Transaction Scope works on non-Windows ?
I'm using TransactionScope in my code to begin a transaction between 2 oracle databases, it works if... more
Thursday, May 24

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EF Design Team
Posts by various members of the team designing the ADO.NET Entity Framework.

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EF5 Release Candidate Available on NuGet
A couple of months ago we released EF5 Beta 2. Since releasing Beta 2 we have made a number of chang... more
Tuesday, May 15 dpblogs

EF5 Sample Provider Published
We have published a new version of the sample provider that supports features introduced in the Enti... more
Tuesday, May 8 dpblogs

EF Power Tools Beta 2 Available
The Entity Framework Power Tools provide additional design-time tools in Visual Studio to help you d... more
Monday, Apr 9 dpblogs

EF5 Performance Considerations
Over the past few weeks the EF team has been putting together a whitepaper that talks about the perf... more
Thursday, Apr 5 dpblogs

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Barry Gervin
Barry Gervin is a Principal Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting. Barry, a technical leader with over 15 years experience, has helped many development teams architect and build large-scale mission critical applications.

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New Speaking Engagement – Visual Studio Live
Thursday, Apr 12 Gil Fink
Video: Entity Framework 5 Enums and Moving Solution from EF 4.3
Wednesday, Apr 4 Julie
Update to EF5 and DbLocal Default in Config
Tuesday, Apr 3 Julie
EF5: Where are my DataAnnotations?
Tuesday, Apr 3 Julie
Moving Projects from EF 4.1,2,3–> EF5Beta: Don’t do what I did
Wednesday, Mar 28 Julie
EF Code First Migrations Update-Database Parameters Documentation?
Friday, Mar 16 Julie
VS11 and EF5: Where’s that database that Code First created?
Tuesday, Mar 13 Julie
Updating to Entity Framework v.Latest the Easy Way
Tuesday, Mar 13 Julie

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Entity Framework Resources and Community

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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