Posted:
Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:20 PM
by
Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, SQL, C#, Services, TechEd, Home, Newsletter, Architecture, VS2008, Entity Framework
So the million dollar question is: Does the Entity Framework replace the need for a Data Access Layer? If not, what should my Data Access Layer look like if I want to take advantage of the Entity Framework? In this multi-part series, I hope to explore
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Posted:
Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:04 AM
by
Barry Gervin |
Filed under: Orcas, ADO.NET, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, Events, Home, Newsletter, Architecture, VS2008
This coming Thursday, Microsoft is hosting the annual Toronto Architect Forum at their offices in Mississauga. The target audience is architects that are *not* in the financial service industry. Here's the agenda: 8:00 - 8:30 am Breakfast and Registration
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Posted:
Friday, May 27, 2005 4:18 PM
by
Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Services, WCF, Home, Newsletter, Architecture
Do you consider your database as a service? It's worthwhile to review the tenents of a service oriented architecture . The first two tenents above are probably the most relevant to my question. If you do all of your data access through stored procedures,
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Posted:
Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:21 PM
by
Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Services, WCF, Home, Newsletter, Architecture
Ramkumar Kothandaraman has a good article just released on MSDN discussing SOA Challenges: Entity Aggregation . Aggregation is a much better name than “composable entities“ since it's definition implies that property sets of an entity grow
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