Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp - Part 6

by mosessaur| 26 September 2011| 0 Comments

About Part 6

6th part is about 12 min in length. Covers Entity SQL, LINQ to Entities and EF4 new feature of using database built in functions & user defined functions UDF. And how to use them with LINQ to Entities.

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Book Review: Programming Entity Framework, Second Edition

by mosessaur| 02 January 2011| 0 Comments

About the book

Title: Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
URL: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807252
Book website: http://learnentityframework.com/
ISBN: 978-0-596-80726-9
Chapters: 27 + 3 Appendices | ~900 pages
Author:
Author’s blog: http://thedatafarm.com/blog/
Overall rating: 9.70 out of 10
This is the second edition of the book totally revised for Entity Framework 4.0 on VS2010 1st edition was released Jan 2009. this 2nd new edition released August 2010.

Personal Opinion

I can’t do anything but strongly recommend this book. It is almost everything you might need about Entity Framework 4.0. Great walkthroughs and samples in C#. However there are few snippet in VB.Net that shows different syntax of doing things between C# & VB.Net.

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