Entity Framework 4.1: Deep Fetch vs Lazy Load (3)

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

• Basics (1)
• Override conventions (2)

In this article, I’ll cover the control of what is getting loaded in queries.

EF 4.1 is able to manage relations.  Now which relations get loaded when you do a query? ...

Entity Framework 4.1: Override conventions (2)

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

• Basics (1)

In this article, I’ll cover how to over conventions.

We’ve seen that EF 4.1 Code-First infer the mapping between the model (classes) and the tables according to conventions.  When those conventions aren’t to our liking, we...

Windows Azure AppFabric – Composite Applications

There was some confusing mentions about composite applications in the cloud at the PDC 2010, but we haven’t heard much about it since then.

Last month Itai Raz from the Windows Azure AppFabric Team wrote a blog about Composite Applications in AppFabric.

Like many I didn’t fully understand where that product was going at the PDC 2010.  But...

Entity Framework 4.1: Basics (1)

As I wrote a few days ago, I’ve started to toy around with Entity Framework 4.1, more specifically around the features of Code First.

I’m currently consulting for an SOA project and I have to put forward the solution architecture for many aspect of the solution, including the data access layer.  So I did quite a few POCs in...

SQL Azure & ACID Transactions: not so much in back to 2001

I wrote a blog entry back in November 2010 about ACID Transactions & SQL Azure.

I assumed light transactions using System.Transactions.TransactionScope were not supported based on an article I’ve just read back then.  The article suggested using explicit transaction management (i.e. BeginTransaction, Commit & Rollback on the returned SqlTransaction object) which I found quite...