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:
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:
Sunday, September 12, 2004 3:34 PM
by
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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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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Scott Hanselman does a nice 30 second intro into layered design. If any of this is new to you, run quickly to read this . Scott does a quick bash at Datasets (although doesn't say why) and in my new role as DataSet boy I have to disagree with him and
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I'm doing this MSDN webcast in a few weeks 10/05/2004 1:00 PM - 10/05/2004 2:00 PM (EasternTime) In this session we'll cover the world of logging and instrumenting your application. We'll discuss the various .NET framework components as well as higher
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