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Last week at TechEd I gave a talk about building data access layers with the Entity Framework. I covered various approaches from not having a data access layer at all, to fully encapsulation of the entity framework - and some hybrid approaches along the
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:20 PM
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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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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:04 AM
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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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One of my readers was watching the DNRTV episode I did on LINQ recently and had this question: At some point, when you're explaining object initializers and anonymous types, you say something regarding extension methods, like how they could be used with
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Friday, May 27, 2005 4:18 PM
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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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Saturday, March 05, 2005 3:19 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, VS2003, C#, WinForms, WebForms, Home, Newsletter, VSTS, Architecture
It's been a theme for me over the past couple of weeks where people have mentioned that they can't afford the time to do modeling. If you've done a lot of UML modeling, you know what I'm talking about. But it doesn't have to be that way. Now just to ward
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You may have noticed that the refactoring menu's that you see in the code editor are also available in the Class Designer. Furthermore, you can also copy & paste things from one class to another. So if you copy a property from one class to another, not
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Sunday, September 12, 2004 3:34 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, VS2003, C#, Tips, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Home, Newsletter, Architecture
Yes, it's the longest title of all VS Live Orlando presentations! It's a big topic and it deserves a big name. I'm heading out Monday night to hurricane country to deliver this talk on Tuesday morning. I like this topic because when you get into it, it's
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Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:21 PM
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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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