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EF 4 – Implementing Lazy Loading For My POCO

RobBagby — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:25:05 +0000

In my last post, I provided a simple end-to-end example where I used the Entity Framework designer to generate an Entity Data Model (EDM), I turned off the default code generation and implemented my own POCOs. Everything worked fine, but at the end of the post I pointed out that I no longer had the [...]

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EF 4 – Implementing POCO Objects

RobBagby — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:29:19 +0000

The EF team has released the POCO template for use with VSTS 2010 Beta 2. I thought I might examine POCO support in the new version of the Entity Framework without taking advantage of the template first, then get into the template in a later post. This post will provide a simple end-to-end sample of implementing POCO objects in EF4 (Beta 2).

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Is Lazy Loading in EF 4 Evil or the Second Coming?

RobBagby — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:34:50 +0000

(As you probably know) The Entity Framework provides you with various options for loading related entities. In Entity Framework 4, you will have the choice to implement eager loading, explicit loading and now… lazy loading. Lazy loading was not available in version 1. A quick search on ‘Lazy Loading’ will yield opinions from 2 very [...]

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Finding a Nursery School

RobBagby — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:31:34 +0000

After our first day of house searching with Claire, it was time to look for a nursery school for Jack. We again had a representative from our relocation company to help us with this. For the afternoon, we had meetings set up with 2 schools. Now, right before Claire dropped us off after our house [...]

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Taking the Housing Trip – Finally

RobBagby — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:26:10 +0000

We finally got the Visa thing squared away and were finally able to take our housing trip. The trip was for 4 days in London. In that time, we were supposed to find a home for us to rent, find our temporary housing and identify a school for our son. Again, we had the expertise [...]

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Moving to London – The Housing Trip

RobBagby — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:51:01 +0000

As some of you might know, my wife was recently offered a great position in London with her company. At the suggestion of a friend of mine, I have decided to chronicle the experience on this blog. In this first post, I start to set the scene for the move.

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Uncle Fergal Helps Us Pronounce Azure

RobBagby — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:59:52 +0000

Are you frustrated with people mispronouncing Azure? In this post, you will hear how my Uncle Fergal believes you should pronounce Azure.

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Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part IV – Service Layer

RobBagby — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:28:35 +0000

In this post, I will be building the WCF Services layer that my client layer will call. I will be using the custom binding made available with Silverlight 3 that enables a decreased message size through encoding the message as binary rather than text. I will also write some code to test this layer.

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The Bagbys Are Moving to London

RobBagby — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:21:34 +0000

As some of you know, my wife Carrie works for American Express in Arizona. Recently she was offered a great career opportunity in London and we have decided to pursue it. It was a very difficult decision for us on many levels. First and foremost, we are leaving behind our friends and family who mean the world to us. Secondly, I have to leave my job with Microsoft and DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism). For over 3 years, I have had the privilege to work for the finest organization in the world with the best team I could imagine. I am not embellishing when I tell you that for 3 years I have loved going to work. This job will be hard to equal.

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Watch the Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Virtually

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:03:01 +0000

Experience The New Efficiency Microsoft Launch Event Live from San Diego October 26th Virtually! www.thenewefficiency.com/live I, along with my teammates, will be delivering the Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 launch live from San Diego starting at 9am PDT October 26th. Now, you can view and download these 18 IT Professional [...]

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2 – Available Today

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:31:38 +0000

Today is a big day for developers. We released Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2 to MSDN Subscribers (it will be available generally on Microsoft.com later in the week). Please visit the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 landing page here to download. Happy coding…

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Patterns-Based Silverlight Development Blog / Screencast Series Index

RobBagby — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:16:00 +0000

I am in the midst of putting together a blog / screencast series illustrating developing Silverlight 3 application, taking advantage of various design patterns. Some of the patterns we will cover are the Repository, the Pipeline, the Service Agent and Model View ViewModel. I will be building a Sample HelpDesk Application along the way (see below).

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Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part III – Pipeline Pattern

RobBagby — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:48:51 +0000

In yesterday’s post, I build our Repository interface and the implementation, as well as added some server-side validation, following a simple pattern. I also added a test project and wrote some tests to test the our validation logic. In this post I will implement the Pipeline pattern. I will then implement a fake repository and use it to test our Pipeline.

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Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part II – Repository and Validation

RobBagby — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:59:54 +0000

Introduction In this post I will provide a brief overview of the Repository pattern, implement a Repository in our sample application, establish our server-side validation and add our test project. Acknowledgements Most of what you will see in this post follows very closely with the code ScottGu implemented in his NerdDinner tutorial. In fact, I would highly [...]

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Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part I – Getting Started

RobBagby — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:35:00 +0000

Introduction During the summer I put together a session on Patterns-Based Silverlight Development that we delivered across the West Region as part of MSDN events. The session was structured around building a Silverlight application from the ground up that illustrated the use of the following design patterns: 1) Repository, 2) Pipeline, 3) Service Agent and 4) [...]

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