First Windows 8 Sneak Peak

Interview with a PM Leaving Microsoft

Mary-Jo Foley has an interesting interview with Hamilton Verissimo, the founder of the open-source Castle Project, who has been a PM in the .NET Fx team.

He tells about his frustration about the company.  Of course, the interview is one-sided but it does pull the veil on the internal working of...

Entity Framework 4.1 – MSDN Article

There is a comprehensive article about Entity Framework 4.1 on MSDN Magazine of May 2011:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/magazine/hh126815.aspx

You can also read my blog series on the topic.

Entity Framework 4.1 Series

I did a few Proof of Concepts (POC) around the new Entity Framework 4.1 as part of an SOA project I’m currently on and I decided to share the acquired knowledge.  The following series of blog posts are the result:

• Basics (1)
• Override conventions (2)
• Deep Fetch vs Lazy Load (3)
• Complex...

Entity Framework 4.1: Bypassing EF query mapping (8)

This is part of a series of blog post about Entity Framework 4.1.  The past blog entries are:

• Basics (1)
• Override conventions (2)
• Deep Fetch vs Lazy Load (3)
• Complex Types (4)
• Many to Many Relationships (5)
• Optimistic Concurrency (6)
• Inheritance (7)

In this...