Entity Framework 4.1: Optimistic Concurrency (6)

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)

In this article, I’ll cover optimistic concurrency.

Very often we need to manage many-users concurrency.  This...

Entity Framework 4.1: Many to Many Relationships (5)

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)

In this article, I’ll cover the many to many relationships.

Let’s start with the easiest case, we’ll let EF...

Entity Framework 4.1: Complex Types (4)

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)

In this article, I’ll cover the complex types.

By default, EF 4.1 is mapping classes to table.  That is convenient but sometimes, we...

Release of Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service

Microsoft releases Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service today.

This component is the pending version of Windows Server App Fabric Caching Service (aka Velocity).

This service will be available as “promotion”, i.e. free of charge for a while.

Entity Framework 4.1 Release to Web (RTW)

Two weeks ago, Microsoft published a Release Candidate (RC)  of Entity Framework 4.1.  They promised to release the product within 4 weeks.

Well, they released it today!

So you can now use Entity Framework 4.1 which is a fully supported Microsoft Product.

The only change done from the RC is the default length of nvarchar from 128...