Book Blog Posts

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Chapter 27 Samples Available

Sunday, October 03 2010        
I’ve just posted the solution for Chapter 27, Building Layered Web Applications on the Downloads page of this site.

now on the kindle

Wednesday, September 22 2010        

Starting today, you can now purchase both 1st and 2nd editions of Programming Entity Framework on Amazon for your Kindle . As far as I know this is currently in the U.S. only. You can also get PDFs, Mobi (for kindle), ePub and DAISY directly from the publisher http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520281...

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Chapter 24 download available

Tuesday, September 21 2010        
I’ve just posted the solution for Chapter 24, Building Persistence Ignorant, Testable Applications on the Downloads page of this site.

corrected figure captions and numbers for Chapter 14

Thursday, September 16 2010        

During the final production stages of the book, I decided to add in the section, Mapping Unique Foreign Keys, into Chapter 14. This came with two new figures. Somehow the person who did this task (editing was by this time out of my hands) must have gotten confused and inserted the images in multiple...

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Programming Entity Framework e-book for $9.99 today only!

Monday, August 30 2010        

O’Reilly Media has placed the new edition of my book available in their “Deal of the Day” program today. YOu can get the ebook version for only $9.99. That’s TODAY only though: Monday August 30, 2010. Go to http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807269 and use the discount code DDPEF...

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Chapter List for Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition

Saturday, August 21 2010        

Programming Entity Framework, Second Edition, focuses on two ways for you to learn. If you learn best by example, you’ll find many walkthroughs and code samples throughout the book; if you’re always looking for the big picture, you’ll also find chapters that dive deep into conceptual information. I have...

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Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition Ebook Available

Tuesday, August 10 2010        
The book went to the printer on August 5th! The ebook is already available on the publisher's website at http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807252 The printed version of the book should begin shipping by August 20th!

2nd Edition (EF4) Table of Contents

Saturday, May 29 2010        

We are closing in on finalizing the 2nd edition of Programming Entity Framework! Although the rough draft chapters are already available through Safari’s Rough Cuts program (here: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807252 ) I have been editing and reshaping the content since those chapters were...

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News about the 2nd Edition

Wednesday, April 28 2010        

Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition (based on the RTM of VS2010/.NET 4.0) is currently available on Safari Rough Cuts at http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807252 . This is a complete rewrite of the book and includes not only the new features of Entity Framework, but chapters on unit testing, building...

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Beach Reading?

Tuesday, August 18 2009        

Jason Haley sent me this picture that he took on a beach on Cape Cod. Apparently Jason does not know the meaning of light beach reading! At least some part of me is enjoying summer beach weather! I love how the book cover and towel’s color’s sync up....

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