Yesterday we released KiGG 3.0 and baselined the source code for version 3. No major changes in this release. We upgraded to ASP.Net MVC 2.0 on .Net 3.5 SP1 & VS2008.

This release is going to be the last release on .Net 3.5 SP1 and VS2008. We plan to upgrade to .Net 4.0 and migrate the solution to VS2010 and start use Entity Framework 4.0 and maybe abandon LINQ to SQL support.

Visit http://kigg.codeplex.com for more information.

Here set of requirements for your development workstation if you are planning to rebuild the source code or customizing it.

Development Workstation System Requirements

• Visual Studio.Net 2008 any edition with SP1 (Express Editions should work)
• .Net Framework 3.5 SP1
• ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RTM
• Included reference libraries (xUnit, Moq, DotNetOpenAuth, Enterprise Library etc...) -available with source code download-
• Database (Only one option is required)
  • SQL Server 2005 or later any Edition with Full-Text Search Services (Full-Text search is required for search)
  • MySQL 5.x
• IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0 (didn't test it on Windows XP IIS 5.5)

About the book

Title: Microsoft Entity Framework in Action
Publisher: Manning Publications
Url: http://www.manning.com/mostarda/
ISBN: 9781935182184
Chapters: 19 + 2 Appendices | ~500 pages
Authors: Stefano Mostarda, Marco De Sanctis, Daniele Bochicchio
Overall rating: 9.24 out of 10

This book was in Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) while writing this review. I reviewed a draft released on 12^th August 2010. This is a detailed review where I rate each chapter and describe it’s contents. The overall rating mentioned above is the average of all chapters’ ratings.

Personal Opinion

I highly recommend this book. No further knowledge about Entity Framework is required. So you don’t have to know anything about EF1 in order to read and gain benefit of this book. Great effort spent on this book by the authors and the publisher. You’ll get a great value with reasonable amount of money compared to the information provided in this book.

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