So Microsoft has made Visual Studio 2010 available but I’m going to skip it for now as my “learning queue” is jammed packed already after coming off of a 2 year Flex/Actionscript jag back into the Microsoft world. I had previously gotten used to C# 2.0 features (mainly generics) and now I am processing all [...]

Master/Detail is a very common scenario. This post shows how to do it using .NET RIA Services, Silverlight 3 and .NET Entity Framework as the DAL. I read the financial papers online each morning and cut/paste news snippets into a text file (soon a database) for later review (to help me lose less money). I [...]

Entity Framework is here to stay as Microsoft is steering future development towards its use. But if you use Entity Framework in your Silverlight apps, you may bump up against some hurdles trying to persist changes made to the Entities on the client back to the store. One design is to use WCF services as [...]

You probably “get it” as to why OR/M in general is becoming more widespread and are signing onto why coding to Objects and letting the OR/M engine interact with the underlying store (thus abstracting the database) is a good thing. But if you are just getting started with Entity Framework you might be lulled into [...]